Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Hi, I’m Kobe Bryant. And I have decided to take my talent to, uh… I have decided to skip college and take my talent to the NBA.

Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I’ve found, however, is work.

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

In many ways an artist is his work. It’s difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn’t work, I can...

If talent without hard work was a dead-end street,talent with hard work could only be a highway.

it’s all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

Talent can take you so far; Hardwork can take you ANYWHERE.

Talents go by nature not by birth.

When you are genuinely preoccupied in serving others using your talent and experience, doors that you have never knocked start to open up…

But talent—if you don’t encourage it, if you don’t train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don’t tame...

It might come a time to not follow your passion, so to speak, although it must be prioritized. It may be the case that your passion will serve as the medic, your peace of mind,...

I had no ability, but I was determined to show heart.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

If you’re not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn’t choose.

He’s done a great job. And there’s more of it to come. He’s a terrific talent.

Well, I’m a fair kisser.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

We should be at the stage where we can make a run at the title. We have the talent level comparable to the top teams in the league, but we still have to learn how...

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.

Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force us to think inTherefore threatening ways?

There would have been a lot of unhappy guys and a lot of talent on the street. Now, I don’t think there’s any question it’s going to mirror more the past years of free agency....

One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like products. While every Macintosh model has had flaws (some more than others), most of them have has...

This is an adjustment year, it’s not a rebuilding year. We have some talent, it’s just a matter of getting used to playing together and being mentally ready.

But I think the job he’s done is overlooked, just because of the talent we have.

A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people.

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school had only made me a target for resentment. I wanted to...

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

Watch your time; keep your eyes on your talents. Set your goals and move into action. You owe the world an birth of success; Go, begin to labour for it now!

I had a dream about you. You were learning to compose music like Mozart, and I was learning to listen like Beethoven. He was deaf, and you were blind to the fact that you had...

I would argue that definitely they have the best talent. They invest so much because the more great talent you have, the easier it is to attract even more great talent.

Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.

…You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can’t do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it’s...

Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you’ll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don’t display great talent and have...

There is an awful lot of athletic talent in the group. Over the next two years, we’ll really find out just how good the class is.

There’s just so much individual talent on this team that at any given point someone is going to step up and make a play. Lindsay was huge down the stretch and Erin hit some big...

Talent is an art of gaining admiration!

They’re improved. They’re a scrappy team. Not a lot of talent, but they make up for it in terms of how hard they play.

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuitNo great talent without an element of madness

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.

Talent is extremely important. It’s like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they...

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.