Talent Quotes

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.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.