Talent Quotes

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

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Kathy Bates is sexy. It's partly because of her talent, but she's got a great face, and a great laugh.

When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the blue and asks me to play for them. It's almost as though there's a force somewhere which is saying 'no sittin' around, out you go!

I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

Talent works, genius creates.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.