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Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
-Bernard Meltzer
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Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
-Owen Meredith
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The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.
-Henry Miller
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This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.
-Charles Montesquieu
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Hidden talent counts for nothing.
-Nero
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
-Jack Nicklaus
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Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
-Sir Laurence Olivier
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Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.
-Mal Pancoast
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
-Pablo Picasso
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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
-Plautus
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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
-Ezra Pound
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Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.
-John Quinton
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Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
-Jules Renard
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I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.
-Martin Ritt
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I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
-Mickey Rourke
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
-John Ruskin
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A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.
-May Sarton
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Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles.
-W. P. Scargill
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Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Representation (translated from German by E. F. J. Payne)
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Talent works, genius creates.
-Robert Alexander Schumann
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
-Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
-Konstantin Stanislavisky
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
-Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel
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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Books about Talent
