Talent Quotes

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

You play a certain way for so long, and change is good. So I look forward to change, and I look forward to playing with the proper talent that we were able to put together.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

One of my greatest talents is recognizing talent in others and giving them the forum to shine.

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess.

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.

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.