Talent Quotes

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.

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.

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

I want to see genuine talent rewarded.

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.

But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball.