Unique Skill Quotes

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

Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well, and the number of men who can do two things well is negligible. If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

I like to mimic accents. I don't even know if that's a talent. That's just a weird thing that I do.

You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.

My whole life I've tried to find the thing I can do that other people can't do, and invest in that, and the one thing I can do is write narratives and build characters. I can do that.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Is dere anysing special about you? Anysing vorth saving?" Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.

Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.

I know a lot of a cappella groups, but none of them are doing backflips while singing, for sure.

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

I can snap my toes. Everyone keeps asking me this, but I know it's kind of weird, but I think it's fun that I can snap my toes.

Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

I have my own thing that I do really well, but it's not singing. It's more of a screaming-type thing.

Hendrix was a natural genius who played many beautiful styles. Talent as great as his doesn't come through life very frequently. Hendrix was one in a billion.

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.

I've only been blessed with one talent, unfortunately, and that's being able to sing a wee bit.

Some guys dig ditches, I have a band. It's what I do

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.

The thing you always have to remember is, you look at people and they might look like a failure but there's often a narrow thing they do very well.

[Being a good comedian] is a skill, but it's also a weird thing that only certain people can do. I always equate it to surgeons and how they can just cut people open and operate. Certain people are just wired differently, and I feel like comics are the same way.