Talent Quotes
Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.
Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much
God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a lot of money. All they had to sacrifice was their talent.
"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
I don't have any secret sauce and I'm no smarter than anyone else. I will say I have surrounded myself with unbelievable talent that has made my job easier.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.
We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.
A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.
It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
"Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question.
If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.