Talent Quote by Meg Wolitzer

“talent makes a huge spiritual leap possible. It’s an almost universal, independent phenomenon that transcends the individual.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Talent was merely the underpinnings. To be an artist, you also had to have nerve. And to maintain nerve, you had to have drive.”

— Tom Robbins

“...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to toss it…

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Bryant McGill

“No one is born with a talent. Talent is something we create on our own with practice and dedication.”

— Airicka Phoenix

“But even talented people, sooner or later, cracked their heads against their own personal ceilings.”

— Monica Wood

“There was something about succeeding at what you tried, especially when people needed your talent. Okay, so that talent happened to be illegal breaking…

— Kalayna Price

“[…] his own father told him that talent is sort of a dark gift, that talent is its own expectation: it is there from…

— David Foster Wallace

“The myth of talent persists—not that people don't have talent but that talent is the quintessential element in virtuosity. It's not; it's skill. Talent…

— Asher Black

“Talent demands that you respect and honor it, and I was still kicking myself around the block seventeen different ways.  Talent without the self-confidence…

— Debora Geary

“Talent is something rare and beautiful and precious, and it must not be allowed to go to waste.”

— George Selden

“There was never talent, only hard work.”

— Yixing Zhang