Talent Quotes

If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are your ready?"

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

Hope is a talent like any other.

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

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

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.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

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.

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.