Best 1678 quotes in «talent quotes» category

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in 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.

I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

I want people to see my movies. My talent, my sensibilities are what people want to see in the movies... While I have the talent to make the kind of movies people want to see I want to continue to do that, keep making big pictures and make what I love. I’m really just making the films I want to see. There’s not a strategy.

I want to do things where the talent range is difficult and that scare me. I thrive on that; if it's not scaring me then I'm not growing.

I want to continue to grow. To me, the biggest sin of all sins, is to be given a gift, a talent, because it's actually a gift from God, to take that and not cultivate it and make it grow, that's the biggest sin in the world.

I want to see genuine talent rewarded.

I was blessed with the talent. God gave me the gift to put words together and make popular songs.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled.

I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

I would love to sing with Christina [Aguilera]... she has so much talent... she has an amazing voice.

I won a scholarship to come to LA and compete in a modeling and talent completion and was amazed when I won it. I had never acted before in my life and won the acting category. I began to wonder what this is about and then decided to see what happened.

I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

I wish you power that equals your intelligence and your strength. I wish you success that equals your talent and determination. And I wish you faith.

I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [...] I feel I must have a talent somewhere for doing something but I'm still not terribly sure what it is. I suppose it's a talent for being myself.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota.

Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

Kathy Bates is sexy. It's partly because of her talent, but she's got a great face, and a great laugh.

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

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

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don’t know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It’s such a hard job to have. I don’t have any regrets about it.

Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a very gifted composer and arranger never ceases to amaze me. I consider him one of the musical giants of our age.

Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.

Lynn, my wife, would very much appreciate if I had a talent for anything besides music.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them greater than they could possibly be, without such establishments. These circumstances are . . . greater scope for the diversity of talents and dispositions which discriminate men from each other.

Marathons are about tenacity as much as talent.

'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is.

McKinty is an exciting new talent.

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

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

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances.

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.