Talent wins games but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

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

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format using their talent craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer but his imagination was wonderful.

Talent lying in the understanding is often inherited genius being the action of reason or imagination rarely or never.

As a person he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented of course but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties and making people laugh is one of mine.

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had with a lot of groups that use humor people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction and then yes you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you and it's all caught on film or onstage.

I don't consider myself to be a major talent so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

I've seen the greatest actors in the world transcendent talents who can't find a home.

When it comes to developing character strength inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child no institution can or ever will compare with or effectively substitute for the home's potential for positive influence.

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective that is all that writing is about.

My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.

Happiness is a how not a what. A talent not an object.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

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

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words so lesser minds have a talent of talking much and saying nothing.