Talent Quotes

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

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 think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.

I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.