Best 1678 quotes in «talent quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

'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.

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

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

Mine's a pretty simple strategy: there's not a lot of talent here, but there's a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.

Money can run out but talent is forever

Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.

Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.