Talent Quotes

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.

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.

I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada.

You see Boris Becker, Mats Wilander, Nadal, Pete Sampras - they were all great when they were young. As a coach, you can see that type of talent at an early age.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.

Mine's a pretty simple strategy: there's not a lot of talent here, but there's a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.