Best 1678 quotes in «talent quotes» category

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 !!

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

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.

ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a talent well worth watching.

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

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

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

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 .

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

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.

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

Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.

Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own

patience is an integral part of talent.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

Over the years I have found one of my best strengths is my ability to recognise talent and trust them.

Paul Scholes is just fantastic. When you play alongside him, you realise what a special talent he is.

Paul Scholes is the best player I've ever played with. There's talent in every part of his game.

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character

People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions with a very few subjects, which it is up to the writer to find.

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

Please remember that your greatest talent is so much more powerful than your biggest fear.

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

Put your resources, your assets, your money and possessions, your time and talents and energies into the things of God. As surely as the compass needle follows north, your heart will follow your treasure. Money leads; hearts follow.

Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.