Talent Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.

I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

I have an eye for new and refreshing talent.

You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.

Mother Earth is very talented.

Talent is culture with insolence.

Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.

Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.

Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

I have many unrecognized talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition.

Obviously, everybody wants to see Tiger [Woods] come back, but I think it's in a really good place with how much talent is out there and the exciting finishes you have, week in, week out.

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

I have always been ready to fight anybody out there, anytime, anywhere. I will knock them all over. My talent speaks for itself.

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

I believe that I have a platform because God blessed me with the talent to play football. Having that talent, my job is to be responsible with it.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody.

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.

I think that talent, good songwriting and passion, will always outlast hype.

I don't care how much talent a team has - if the boys don't think tough, practice tough, and live tough, how they play tough on Saturday.

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.