When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.
Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
Talent is important, but how one develops and nurtures it is even more so.
Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.
Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.
Skill development remains our priority. We are blessed with a demographic dividend that can take us to great heights.
We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.
History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess.
Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.
If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.
Since I was a child, I watched tapes of Baggio, Zico, and Maradona, and then I tried to replicate them just playing on my own against the wall. Certainly it's talent, but you have to cultivate that talent.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock
Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity
It was not a secret, then or now, that there is something vaguely un-American about forcing your child to be really good at classical music performance.
America's competitive advantage lies in its human talent. All of us should be doing everything we can to cultivate and develop our work force.
I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.
Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.
The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.
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.
Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
So, really, I just try to be the best guitar player I can be - not the best female guitar player, not the best 'X amount of years' guitar player, or whatever - just the best guitar player.
