Talent Quotes

Can't win without talent, you know.

I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don't know how long she'll run away from it, but it's there in her.

Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

It takes a lot of pressure off you just to go out and play, and your talent sometimes shines even more when you don't worry about individual stuff.

The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.

She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.

Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice.

Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.

Talent Katerina is a dangerous thing

Talent always rises to the top

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

And to get that much talent in the show—and to keep it constant and consistent—I think is a remarkable feat.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.

I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school and every year I participated in the talent shows and the school plays, all of 'em.

I always felt that the telefilm directors made wonderful films, which are even better than the big screen movies, but never got enough opportunities to showcase their talents on the big screens.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.

I’m going out to let my real talent show, not to just stand there and dance around. Personally, I’d never lip-synch. It’s just not me.

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting. You really have to have a legitimate talent to back it up.

Chemistry [between people] is not the easiest thing to evaluate. Just like talent and health, these things can change.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

Lily Tomlin...I used to watch reruns of Laugh-In and she was always my favorite part. She's this very unique talent and the way she does things has been a very big influence on me.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.

I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun; it's the best job on Earth.

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.

I don't have any talent as an artist but I do have an awareness for business and what you need to bring to that world. It helps to know what you're good at.

I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.

Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.