Talent Quotes

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

You can have talent and strength, but the most important is determination.

Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.

Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.

Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

Talent is important but it is not the key point.

People who follow their joy discover a depth of creativity and talent that inspires the world.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind.

I have more talent in my smallest fart than you have in your entire body.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.

Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.