Talent Quotes

Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

Paul Scholes is the best player I've ever played with. There's talent in every part of his game.

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.

I have an incredible talent for tripping everywhere. And I find that rather boring. Tripping and walking out of my shoes; I do it all the time when I am out at work. I'm a bit clumsy.

Talent is nothing but long impatience.

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.

In the Miss America system talent is worth 50 percent of a contestant's points so my mom encouraged me to give it a try. And once I decided to do it, like anything else, I gave it 110 percent.

By expressing our unique talents and using them to serve others, we will experience unlimited love, abundance, and true fulfillment in our lives.

Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

It's not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let's put it on display and have some fun.

Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football.

Talent is not enough. It's an important component in a successful performance, but it's really only a starting point.

God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines.

I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead . . .

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

It seems to me like a perversion of talent for an artist of any kind to further the corporate structure of America or the personal interests of the morons and thieves who run it.

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We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.

First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

There are no good guys in a Quentin Tarantino movie. They're all bad guys. And you like us. That's Quentin's big talent.