Talent Quotes

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.

All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.

Lynn, my wife, would very much appreciate if I had a talent for anything besides music.

Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.

Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

Half talent is no talent.

I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

Talent is often a defect in character.

Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.

I feel like if we're blessed enough to be given talent, to be given an opportunity, then why not take that opportunity and make it for someone's betterment you know?

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.

Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Talent should minister to genius.

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.

I thought he might hit me over the head, knowing that he wanted to do the whole show. He was young, ambitious, and a huge talent. But he was also very gentle, and we got along fine.

Don't make a cemetery of your life by burying your talents.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Creativity is not a talent; It is a skill. A talent is something you are born with. A skill is something you learn.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

Dancing is not one of my talents. But when you've had a few drinks anyone is a good dancer, right?

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

Hire the best talent to tell the story, or the view is great from my hotel.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".

I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of my natural talent - I'm not saying I'm that talented, but I have enough acting and writing talent to go.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.