Talent Quotes

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

My will exceeds my talents.

Good writing comes from good talent.

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

Ronaldo is a unique player for all of his talent and his professionalism. He is a player who is extraordinarily consistent.

I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.

You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

I often help others discover the outer limits of their hatred. It’s a talent of mine.

When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

A lot of people have a lot of talent. What people don't have is the will to work hard enough to develop that talent fully.

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.

A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

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

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.

I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.