Talent Quotes

Talents constitute our very essence.

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.

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

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.

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.

I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them. It's astonishing how much talent and ability rests inside a human being

There are two ways to become famous. Degrade yourself or have talent. The first way is easier.

We've got unmatched talent, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, so when we work together, we can all benefit.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.

If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.

many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

God gave Davie Cooper a talent. He would not be disappointed with how it was used

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics.

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

I have a talent for dealing with difficult men.

Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

Everybody in the world is talking about Canada…outside of the US, there is probably no country in the world that is producing more blue-chip young basketball talent than Canada.

I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.

I try not to respond with a pep talk, such as, "Everyone has talent, just try, you'll see." I skirt those kinds of answers.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.

Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent!

Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.

A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.

I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.

A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.