Talent Quotes

I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.

Avoiding along some dimensions is easy. Create organization space and bring in some new talent so the innate cultural resistance is less material. Unfortunately, it's rarely that easy.

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist. Talent is like a card player's luck. It is motivation, ambition, and luck. It's just a drive to be the best. I think acting is a con game.

Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.

I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.

Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.

Amazing," Edward muttered. "How can someone so tiny be so annoying?" Alice laughed. "It's a talent.

There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .

Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.

Talent imitates, but genius steals.

I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.

Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

I feel now I can take my talent through the roof.

Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.

Talent is truth on display.

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

When you can't rely on sticking a pipe in the ground, what you have to rely on is unlocking the energy and talent of all your people - men and women.

With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

While there's plenty to be said for drive and talent, it was my parents' support that started me on the path that led me here today.

The question is one of faith. Faith in my talent. Faith in my decisions. And faith in the idea that the truth, even if it can’t pay my bills, can still set me free.

He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to.

I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things and never shuts up.

You go through high school and college the same way: never listening to your coaches because you're the best. But when you get to the pros, all that stops because everybody there has talent.

Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the world of erotic fiction. [on Pleasures of the Night ]

I have been a fan of Jesse Terry since the first time I heard him. He's a humble - and humbling - talent.

I plan to do my next two albums with Lady Gaga . She is quite a talent.

I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.

[People] don't know the talent and I want to show them.

Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is my only talent, so that's what I use. I use my talent.

I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.

Messi or Cristiano - Speed? Cristiano. Shot? Cristiano. Dribbling? Messi. Intelligence? Messi. Talent? Messi. Winner is Messi!

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

patience is an integral part of talent.

I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.

Wearing short skirts while dancing to a manic routine without showing your knickers or looking indecent is a talent, as far as I'm concerned.

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

Spielberg was very young and starting up when we did Sugarland Express and I loved that, but the main thing was that I really loved his talent.