Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

Can't win without talent, you know.

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.

If I have the choice between experience and talent, I'm taking talent every time.

You need raw talent to be successful.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

When you're talented, you're talented.

You're gifted to do something.

Some people don't need to work hard because they are so talented.

There are many talented people.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

I have a lot of respect for people with a lot of talent.

Yes, I think I have talent.

If you are good enough, you should play.

Ultimately, it's your talent that counts.

What one does easily, one does well.

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

If I could be really competent, that goes such a long way toward things, because the majority of things are not competent. If I can be competent, and have moments of originality, that's all I would ask for.

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?

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.