Best 1678 quotes in «talent quotes» category

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard enough.

My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

[My mother] was the one who encouraged me constantly and always reminded me that God gave me a talent and I have to use it. I should not keep it locked inside.

My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

My only talent is that I have a so-called big engine. I can attack on successive days - well maybe now not so often - or ride tempo at the front of the peloton for a week. I'm not a climber or a sprinter. Whatever makes the race sticky, fast and difficult is good for me. I'm just a big motor - I think I'm allowed to say that - and a fighter. I'll do whatever it takes to make the race.

My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot of talent, she painted extremely well. She was quite a strong factor in my life.

My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

My talents are in demand, and my unique gifts are appreciated by those around me.

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.

My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.

My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.

My view is not just to find young talents, it's to support them too.

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Never compromise on hiring the best talent. Build value, not valuation. We have never used tactics like giving discounts, cashback to make customers use our product. This way no one can create a sustainable business.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: energy plus talent and you are a king; energy and no talent and you are still a prince; talent and no energy and you are a pauper.

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!

New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.

New talents are the future.

No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.

No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.

Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.

Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music, but they're trying to figure out how to go about it.

Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.

Okay, I'm lazy. But being lazy is a talent. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of work.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must also believe in the vehicle for expressing them, in the talent.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

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

One's single greatest strength may be uncovering the hidden talents of another person.

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

on the day that the intlligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only begin to imagine.

Open source is important to our orgs as a talent pool; we need better representation of women.

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?