Best 1678 quotes in «talent quotes» category

I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better I would love to be a writer.

I think you're born with style, but you have to develop it. You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

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

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

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

Its always important to invest in young talents and the talents of tomorrow.

It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

It's been a pleasure to bring my talents to south beach now on to Memphis.

It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an inner life, privacy. And I think there must be something wrong.

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.

It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

It's not about talent once you get to the NFL because everyone's got it. It's about being willing to go that extra mile to be the best and that's something that I've always done.

It’s not enough to have talent. You also have to be Hungarian.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.

I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity.

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.

I've always been quite good at watching someone do something and then picking it up, so I turned that talent to watching people on the film set, and just saw how small everything was and how intimate the scenes could be.

I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would go to the local theater. I was always in dance. I was always performing. That was always my thing.

I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.

I've had the opportunity to work on a number of just amazing, exceptional motion pictures. I've had the opportunity to work with some of the finest talent in the business. All this because I was at the right place at the right time.

I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.

I've come to appreciate other people's talents.

I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.

I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

I've always loved to sing and dance, but the caliber of my talent in those areas obviously is not nearing Patti LuPone or Sutton Foster.

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

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 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'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