Barking up the wrong tree Quote by David Salle

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

— Anonymous

Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant or prodigy.…

— Kevin Maney

Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of course, with…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Talent is often a defect in character.

— Karl Kraus

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

That is what lower performers do; they make others wrong for doing what is necessary in order to make themselves feel okay about doing…

— Grant Cardone

“The inept are gifted at overlooking the extent of their incompetence. They suffer from illusory superiority, which leads them to make even more thinking…

— Rolf Dobelli

Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.

— Norman Mailer

When I think how hard others with talent try and never achieve success, it makes me unhappy.

— Vera-Ellen

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.

— Renee Fleming

I've always felt that one of the mistakes people make is that they try to do something that is just slightly beyond their skill…

— Nora Ephron

“Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the…

— Jim Collins