Talent Quotes

I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]

Marathons are about tenacity as much as talent.

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

TALENT PROVIDES HOPE FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT, BUT PERSEVERANCE GUARANTEES IT.

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.

There are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment.

I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.

In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents.

The team with the most talent usually wins.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means its going to be harder for young talent to get discovered.

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

It's better to over-pay for A-level talent early on, even if you can't afford it. They will drive exponential value and help you win faster.

There is a bit of a once a soap actor always a soap actor thing, but I do think people still recognise talent. If youre good at something, then people have no choice but to accept it.

Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.

The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent

It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then.

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success and so were the Celtics. So after awhile it became part of people's sports lore...

The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.

My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

I don't think that we're limiting talent. I think if I could reverse the clock a little bit, there would have been more kind coverage among female journalists for what I was doing.

It is hard to compare over generations. I think a lot of the top talent is choosing other fields. We look pretty hard - we put a lot of time and effort into finding talent.

I have no talent. I have nothing to offer.