Talent Quotes

Talent is being able to please people.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.

There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

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.

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.