Best 1678 quotes in «talent quotes» category

For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree.

For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.

For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed them, and turn them to social account.

For what I have accomplished and what I have become, I have to to thank my industry much more, my indefatigable working, rather than any outstanding talent.

Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power and talents are not necessary to the person of a Freemason. An unblemished character and a virtuous conduct are the only qualifications for admission into the Order.

Friday was added to my nickname because I have a talent of getting on with most people. So it's a bit of a man Friday thing.

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.

F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?

God gives everyone the same amount of talent. It's just up to you to korek (dig).

God gave Davie Cooper a talent. He would not be disappointed with how it was used

God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea.

God has given you talents and opportunities. Seize them today -- not tomorrow.

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

God isn't a talent scout looking for someone who is "good enough" or "strong enough." He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.

Good attitude is most important. Good talent is second.

Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find.

Good writing comes from good talent.

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Have you seen this inane support from CNN extolling Hillary Clinton's breathing talents; that she has this unique ability to breathe through one nostril at a time? It's obviously she's got some problems.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

Half talent is no talent.

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.

Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness.

Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent!

Hard work is greater than lazy talent.

Have confidence, do your own thing, find your talent, and work at it to be the best. And always, always have fun!

Having talent is fantastic. Having confidence is even more important.

He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.

He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

He's a winner. There's no doubt about that, and it's stating the obvious to say that he's a tremendous talent.  (on David Beckham)