I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I’m on form, I can sell anything.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

I’m trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, ‚I’m different. I’m not just a comedian.‘ I’m trying to become a rock star.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.