Talent Quotes

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.

Redefine the sport in terms of your expertise, in terms of your talent, in terms of your strength, in terms of your flair. Make it interesting. Make it something that people want to watch.

A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.

Big Texas (Nolan Ryan) is here. The reason I like to keep Nolan around is he is a reminder that when we got done with the Sammy Sosa trade, there was still some talent on the Rangers.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on 'Britain's Got Talent'.

I feel that if you can transcend the color of your skin, with your talent, why carry that as a badge or a label?

I found out about Jonathan Winters death a day after it happened. That seems wrong. A talent like his should be more revered. The world knew about Kim Kardashians divorce before she did.

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

I like finding talent. That's what really turns me on, I suppose.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

I believe every child is born with a gift from God - big or small - and that we should all make the most of our talents.

Miss America gets a lot of flak, but the reality is that it is uplifting and aspirational - 50% percent of my points were based on talent.

When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.

I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.

I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent.

It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.

Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you are either born with it or you aren't.

I am working on a list for collaborations and it's just another way to share your artistic talent with other artist.

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.

The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve.

Each of us, whatever our talents, has service to give. And to do it well always involves learning, not once or for a limited time, but continually.

I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.

As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.

I believe in talent, and you believe in who you cast and help them go the distance.

What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

America is the only developed nation in the world with no guaranteed paid leave of any kind. That means we're leaving a whole lot of talent on the sidelines.

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

I think nobody can explain why some people win and why some people lose. It really doesn't always have to do much with talent. It has to do with how you deal with pressure.

The important talent is the talent to develop one's talent.

I've come to appreciate other people's talents.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous.

I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.