Talent Quotes

I think there's an enormous lot of talent around, and somewhere amongst these I'm sure that something will emerge, given time.

In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and anti-Semitism.

To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.

I have a talent for missing the best and greatest parties.

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

Discover your divinity, find your unique talent, serve humanity with it.

Its always important to invest in young talents and the talents of tomorrow.

Today I find it's extremely hard to launch one's brand, and that's also why we are helping these young talents.

When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.

Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

I don't have weird talents I'm just a weird person! And do impersonations.

No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.

The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.

God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

There's any number of DJs who have inspired me over the years. I don't actively go out in clubs, so I can't tell you if there's some hot new talent out there who everybody's aware of but I'm not.

I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

I've always had a talent for building businesses - and, importantly, for creating jobs. That's a talent America desperately needs.

The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

To buy an Apple product is to bet on the longevity of the closed system to which we've committed ourselves. And that system is embodied - through marketing as much as talent - by Steve Jobs.

I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

You play a certain way for so long, and change is good. So I look forward to change, and I look forward to playing with the proper talent that we were able to put together.

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

Self-doubt kills talent.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

Tony Bennett said to me, "Wow, your talent is amazing." Maybe he's a bore, maybe he's a jerk, but when he said that to me, I didn't need anything more than that.

Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.