Best 1678 quotes in «talent quotes» category

Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

Put your resources, your assets, your money and possessions, your time and talents and energies into the things of God. As surely as the compass needle follows north, your heart will follow your treasure. Money leads; hearts follow.

Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.

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

Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

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

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

Recognize that you are a spiritual being who is part of a large cosmic family of spiritual beings. You have the power, strength, and talent to fulfill your own individual earthly destiny.

Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas.

Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

See God gave us the talent, but the devil make us famous.

Sebastian Vettel's brilliant talent will ultimately come forth and he'll continue to show what he's capable of. I will never ever degrade Vettel's ability. Sooner or later, he'll prove anyone so wrong

Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?

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

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

Self-doubt kills talent.

She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.

So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't.

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

So much technology, so little talent.

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.

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.

Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible!

Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.

Stripping for cash is yet another of my many talents

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.

Suddenly everything came together in one place. All my likes, everything I actually seemed to have talent for was right there. I said, "Hey, this is it. I can do this really well. I really love to do it.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.