Talent Quotes

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.

So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.

You always get that energy, you just want to be heard, to go out, do your thing and show people that we have just as much talent here as everywhere else.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

'America's Got Talent' has really opened a lot of doors for me. I want to do a lot more TV.

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

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.