Talent Quotes

Hope is a talent like any other.

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

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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

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.

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

This battle for global talent is so important.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're talking about Gary and myself, we have a God-given talent, but we worked at it and we're happy to be where we are today.

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.