Top 52 Having No Talent Quotes
#1. I was strictly a college-ruled man myself, having no talent for illustration and a microscopic scrawl that made wide-ruled seem roomy. The blank pages were usually the most popular
Rachel Cohn
#2. Having no talent is no longer enough.
Gore Vidal
#3. The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.
Jim Talent
#4. There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.
Lily Collins
#5. Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#6. We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
Michelle Bachelet
#8. Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#9. It's good to be a little nervous. God compensates those with a lack of talent with an overabundance of self-confidence. -Gigi
Karen White
#10. I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.
Pete Maravich
#11. The mobile Web, location-based services, inexpensive and pervasive mobile apps, and new sorts of opportunities to access cars, bikes, tools, talent, and more from our neighbors and colleagues will propel peer-to-peer access services into market.
Lisa Gansky
#12. One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#13. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.
Johnny Depp
#14. Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.
Fred Allen
#15. An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
Irwin Shaw
#16. I have an incredible talent for tripping everywhere. And I find that rather boring. Tripping and walking out of my shoes; I do it all the time when I am out at work. I'm a bit clumsy.
Mette-Marit, Crown Princess Of Norway
#17. Choose your best talent and focus on it!
Jp
#18. Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.
Arnold Newman
#19. A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.
Denzel Washington
#20. Everyone thinks that having a talent is a matter of luck; no one thinks that luck could be a matter of talent.
Jacinto Benavente
#21. The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.
Alexander Morozevich
#22. Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.
Paul Gauguin
#23. I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent,
Daniel Radcliffe
#24. A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.
Jean De La Bruyere
#25. You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
Nancy Grace
#26. The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Quentin Crisp
#27. The dichotomy is delicious. Inside the fantasy genre, I try to present women who need to solve real problems like having no voice in community, or no right to work; no access to capital to start a business. No reinforcement for talent.
Stella Atrium
#28. He had a talent for asking exactly the right questions to lead me to my own answers. Just being near him made things clearer.
K.D. Sarge
#29. Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
Alan Jay Lerner
#30. As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.
Elizabeth Banks
#32. Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.
James Jones
#33. Nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.
Lynda Obst
#34. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
#35. I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.
Gordon Ramsay
#36. In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
Calvin Coolidge
#37. There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.
Fanny Fern
#38. I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair
Dolly Parton
#39. Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.
Frankie Avalon
#40. Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#41. Self-discipline predicted academic performance more robustly than did IQ. Self-discipline also predicted which students would improve their grades over the course of the school year, whereas IQ did not. ... Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.5.2
Charles Duhigg
#42. I think in Israel there is so much talent in the TV world because there's less movies done.
Ayelet Zurer
#43. Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.
Kevin Smith
#44. We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.
LeCrae
#45. Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him
Sunday Adelaja
#46. I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#47. 'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is.
Joe Bastianich
#48. You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think
I did
that God put you on earth to blow your father away.
Stephen King
#49. And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
Gregory Maguire
#50. Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined that a reader can jump right in. Betsy Cornwell is a terrific new talent with a boundless imagination.
Valerie Sayers
#51. It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.
Zach Braff
#52. Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.
Cate Blanchett
