Talent Quotes

I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.

No one can question the talent of India's youth after the success of the Mars Mission. Everything indigenous!

Domains like Trade, Technology, Tourism, Talent and Tradition have the power to redefine existing paradigms.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.

He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.

It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.

This is just too awful. Such an amazing talent [like George Michael] gone too soon. Wham was part of the soundtrack to my teenage years.

When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.

Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.

When I first went on Britain's Got Talent I was famous for my cheap suit, my wonky teeth and the fact that I sold mobile phones for a living.

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

For the amount of talent I had (and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke) I enjoyed a tremendous career.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Sometimes I think that I stay young and in touch with contemporary culture because of my children's interests. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by their talent and vibrancy.

If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

I have worked with some incredible talent, and loved every minute of it.

Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you are better than others. My area is acting, I guess. I hope.

Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.

I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

If the girls and boys have talent and feel like working on themselves, they can become champions.

I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

A forte always makes a foible.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come.

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.