Joan Sutherland Quotes

You're gifted to do something.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

There are many talented people.

I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Whoever can, should.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

God blessed us with talent.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

If you've got the talent it'll shine through.

Everyone has talent in the league.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

I never saw a player who had greater promise.

I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.