Talent Quotes

Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're a good person, your name will be remembered a long time.

Britain's got talent, enormous talent, that's very obvious.

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.

Mumbai Indians will strive to build on our proud legacy of giving youngsters a platform to showcase their talent and realise their true potential.

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction.

I don't have to have talent. I just need to have auto-tune and be allowed to have the hottest track in the game, and my swag.

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

He is an exceptional talent. I still think Diego Maradona is the best player I have ever seen but Messi is closing in fast. He's a wonderful sight in full flight and we are lucky to have him around.

Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.

I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

Shelley was an idol of mine -- and many -- an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, The Physiology of Common Life Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

Anyone with talent can play in the Major Leagues; for someone like me to stay around as long as I did, I think that's a much greater acheivement.

I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture

There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment on your story and/or talent.

Talent will not always find its way but commitment will.

I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?

In this new digital landscape, this sort of international marketplace, it's come full circle, and I wanted to take advantage of my talent relations on both sides of the Atlantic.

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.