Talent Quotes

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.

At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.

I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers.

During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.

I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Talent is only the starting point.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

I'm always looking for new talent.

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.