Wyclef Jean Quotes

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

Talent cannot be learned, it can only be developed.

Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

Great talents appear whenever the social conditions favorable to their development exist. This means that every man of talent who actually appears, every man of talent who becomes a social force, is the product of social relations.

The thing about talent is that it comes at different ages, sometimes at a very early age. That's when I find it to be the most challenging.

I was talented at a young age, but I still had to grow and develop further.

Talent is important, but how one develops and nurtures it is even more so.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

Talent is not sexually transmitted.

I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you're not the most talented oboe player ever? The point is that if you don't love it, then it doesn't matter.

By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.

While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.

Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.