Talent Quotes

Saying "no" has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined.

The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.

He's a winner. There's no doubt about that, and it's stating the obvious to say that he's a tremendous talent. (on David Beckham)

You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.

If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

Jack shook his head. "Not one of my many talents, sadly. But if you have a cherry stem I can show you a really cool one.

Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.

Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.

My talent matters more to me than the money does.

Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.

I don't really have a talent. I can't sing or act or dance or perform, those talents. All I can do is be myself.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now.

Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.

It's a lot of talent sitting in suits.

We ran out of talent tonight. The guys played as hard as they could, as long as we could.

I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.

Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did achieve.

A lot of singers that I've heard that I may not like their sensibility, but I see that they're entitled to whatever they get. People don't get there without talent, they really don't.

Thank you Prince for all of your inspiration and sharing your increadible talents with the world. You will be incredibly missed.

Access to goods, services & talent triumphs over ownership

We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.

Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, Id like to work with him again someday.

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

To be good to yourself ... Sometimes it seems that takes a special talent all its own.

This has got to be the greatest school for lab bands in the country. It's great because Leon Breeden and his staff have devoted their lives - not just their time and talent - to build it.

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.

I have a lot of respect for people with a lot of talent.

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.

I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

Unbelievable, George Michael has died at the age of 53. RIP.This dreadful year goes on and on.So sad, a real talent.

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.

I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

There's a lot that I'd love to do. I haven't had a chance to really show the breadth of my talent, so I look forward to that.

Part of the talent of any company is to surround yourself with people who have good spirit and help you do more and more things.

I hate all children of precocious talent.