Talent Quotes

What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

As a young man God blessed me with a special talent to throw a football.

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

'Brand India' is built of 5 Ts - talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

I don't have any hidden talents but if you dare me to do something I'll go after it big time.

I think nowadays we're often sidetracked by what somebody got popular doing with all due respect to what they do, but it should be about the talent.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

All the talent in the world is useless without perseverance.

There's an old chestnut that asks whether an entrepreneur is born or made and I think it's a combination of both. You need the talent; without the talent you can't do it.

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for everyone.

Doing the difficult things that you've never done awakens the talents you never knew you had.

We get talent and scale from mergers.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair

Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do... Try A Little Bit Harder.

Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling.

He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

When I was six I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.

Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.

A middling talent makes for a more serene life.

In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.

Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating.

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.

I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.