Talent Quotes

Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the exact same time.

We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.

I think reality television is such a special talent.

Any fool can buy talent; only real leaders develop it.

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

Isabel sends her brother a look that could boil him in oil if she had that particular paranormal talent. A thought hits me: maybe she has. It will be fun to find out.

Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.

another word for talent is obsession.

I loved Chiara Mastroianni voice, her talent, her generosity. We rehearsed for two months...She's a workaholic and perfectionist, like Vincent [Paronnaud] and myself.

These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.

Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.

Talent is being able to please people.

Of course there are exceptional circumstances, and there is exceptional talent; but, unhappily, exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

I always felt that my talent would trump everything.

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.

Someone with inborn talent isn't happy. It's those who have worked hard for someone precious to them and who can be hot-blooded that are happy." -Gai Sensei: Naruto Episode 196

My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.

F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.

Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.

Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

I'd like to say I'm one of the tight ends here and I hope this week helps me show that I do have the talent to be considered that.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

In The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!

Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible!

Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.

You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.

The thing about the movie 'Navy SEALs' is that it was just such a waste. The script could've been shaped to be much better, and you just hate to see all that talent and passion go to waste.

Lack of discipline. First of all, I think some of them fail because they just don't have natural talent, and they shouldn't even be in the business to begin with.

Leadership is not about experience, education or talent. It's about choosing to lead.

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.

Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation.

It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.

What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world.

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent.

Don't think that you can just rely on natural talent because there are going to be times when you get a little tired and that's when your skills come into play to help you make look easy.

If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.

He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

Let the path be open to talent.

In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.