Quotes about Talent, page 3

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

Quote by Gordon Parks about talent

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Quote by Emile Zola about talent

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about talent

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Quote by William Faulkner about talent

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Quote by Antoine de Rivarol about talent

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Quote by Antoine de Rivarol about talent

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Quote by Mel Brooks about talent

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Quote by Edmond de Goncourt about talent

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

Quote by Donald McNichol Sutherland about talent

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

Quote by Francoise Sagan about talent

Without work, talent is nothing but a bad habit.

Quote by Georges Brassens about talent

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Quote by Hector Berlioz about talent

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Quote by Robert Charles Benchley about talent

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Quote by Jessamyn West about talent

If there is tce case to recognize one of my talents, then I will mention the force of imagination, it was the one which, in the creative process is called inspiration.

Quote by Barbu Cioculescu about talent

Vulnerability, this is the mark of talent.

Quote by Gabriela Melinescu about talent

Young people are the ones who make history and only the elders tell it, with more or less talent or wit.

Quote by Mihai Dinu Gheorghiu about talent

Talent is a divine gift from God, necessarily, but itselgf alone, without work, a lot of work, remains sterile. A quarter of talent and three quarters of work will born a work of art. Selected Works, VI RightWords Translation

Quote by Liviu Rebreanu about talent

Work is the harsh condition for highlighting the talent.

Quote by Gala Galaction about talent

In the world talent means nothing without character.

Quote by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu about talent