Talent Quotes

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.

Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

So much technology, so little talent.

I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem.

I hope to become an actor who succeed not from how I look, but my talent.

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

Everything we have - every blessing, every talent - is a gift from our Father. The only thing that's all ours is our sin.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

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.

The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

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.

Detroit is full of talent.

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.

If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

"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.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

Along with the talent, you also need direction.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.

Winning takes character. Workers get the most out of themselves. When a body has limited talent, it must muster all its resources of character to overcome adversity.

Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Startup success is driven most by the product passion, quality, vision, team-work and persistence of the founding team and the talent that the team attracts.

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.