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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

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.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

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

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

Talent works, genius creates.

In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

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.