Talent Quotes

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

Its super to play with Martina, and she has huge amounts of talent. We have a lot of fun.

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, I'd like to work with him again someday.

I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity.

I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.

I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.

You can never have enough talent.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.

I think reality television is such a special talent.

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.