Talent Quotes

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

Your talent is in your choice.

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.

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

I guess I'm afraid to retire because I don't know what I would do. I don't know what my talent is. So I don't know. So maybe I'm afraid to stop, but I've got to stop.

The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

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.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.