Talent Quotes
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Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.
Walt Disney
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I see someone like John Williams, the classical player, and the amount of discipline and the natural ability that man has is so frightening. That requires so much natural talent. And I think my talent came from just practising, and I feel a bit intimidated when I see players that good.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.
Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
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In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My father has a beautiful, beautiful voice. His father was a pastor of a church. He sang in church. My mother sang in a church choir. I can take no credit for my vocal talent, because, both my father, and mother have beautiful, beautiful voices.
Deniece Williams
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
Yahoo Serious
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In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it's books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it's yours.
Michael Jackson
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We just want to get more talent and more depth.
C. Vivian Stringer
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I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
Pat Metheny
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Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.
Walker Evans
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Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.
Carroll Shelby
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I always tell people that I am most proud of the fact that the Ushahidi story has provided an inspiration to other techies in Kenya and Africa as an example of the kind of talent the continent holds.
Ory Okolloh
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They asked me how much money I had, and I told them I had saved my every dime from working in the mills, which was about $300. Well, they told me the school tuition for a year was $900. But the man in charge of the school made me an offer I'll never forget it. He asked me if I was a gambler. He said if I paid the $300, he would take me on and if I worked hard and proved I had talent, somehow he'd find the rest of the tuition money for me.
Karl Malden
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I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.
Xavier Atencio
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I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines. I'd kill it.
Hannibal Buress
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I have more talent in my smallest fart than you have in your entire body.
Walter Matthau
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I'm comfortable that we've got the appropriate wage investments to get the talent we need.
Doug McMillon
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I don't know what anyone was thinking about when they decided to do this. I thought we were trying to spread the talent so the four best teams could arrive at the one spot.
C. Vivian Stringer
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There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.
Daniel Akaka
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
Brian Tracy
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I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.
James Brown