Best 1678 quotes in «talent quotes» category

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

So much technology, so little talent.

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

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.

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

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

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

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

Stripping for cash is yet another of my many talents

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

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.

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

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.

Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Talent is a long patience.

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

Talent is indispensable, although it is 'always' replaceable. Just remember the simple rules concerning talent: Identify It, Hire It, Nurture It, Reward It, Protect It. And when the time comes, Fire It.

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

Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

Talent is truth on display.

Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.

Talent should minister to genius.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

Talent is not sexually transmitted.

Talent means energy and persistence and nothing more!

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

Talent will not always find its way but commitment will.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished.

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

Talent imitates, but genius steals.