Talent Quotes

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

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.

I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.

Self-doubt kills talent.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Basketball talent is basketball talent, no matter if it comes from the suburbs or the city. Take the time to know and understand me before you judge me. Only God can do that. Roses do grow from concrete!

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.