Talent Quotes

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

Skills can be taught. It's tough to teach heart. Talent is fairly common.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals.

What does God want me to do with the resources, time, and talents He has given me?

Don't forget: one of the saddest things in life is wasted talent.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.

Talent is our No.1 operating priority and our most important asset.

A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

The talent is in the choices.

If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful.

Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

One of my greatest talents is recognizing talent in others and giving them the forum to shine.

Mine's a pretty simple strategy: there's not a lot of talent here, but there's a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.

To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.

Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

I would like it if people would think that beyond Newman, there's a spirit that takes action, a heart, and a talent that doesn't come from my blue eyes.

The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not.

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

Hard work is for people short on talent.

One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non - sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.

I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.

Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.