The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
~ Irwin Shaw
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
~ Milton Glaser
A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.
~ Dee Dee Myers
Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'
~ Johnny Carson
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
~ Nolan Ryan
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
~ Martin Seligman
Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.
~ George Allen
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
~ Jessye Norman
It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
~ John Singer Sargent
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.
~ Samantha Morton
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
~ Marguerite Young
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
~ Thomas Wolfe
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
~ Billy Sunday
Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can play till 32 or 34 with same fitness and without injuries, he will come to a point where not even Vivian Richards neither Sachin Tendulkar had such a record.
~ Kapil Dev
We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.
~ Steve Vai
For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.
~ Itzhak Perlman
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
~ Shirley Chisholm
The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
~ Irrfan Khan
My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
~ Zosia Mamet
