Talent Quotes
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Never have so many people, made so much money with so little talent.
Robert Pozen
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To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
Ernest Hemingway
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
George Bernard Shaw
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A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.
Viswanathan Anand
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Talent is what makes you stand in awe of a human.
Cory Asbury
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I think there's just some fundamental decisions at the beginning that are going to make it different. Our show The Right Now Show is going to be specifically different than Mr. Show because of the talent involved.
Scott Aukerman
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The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
Michael Caine
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You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.
JJ Feild
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My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.
Albert Einstein
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If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.
William Blake
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Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.
William D. Cohan
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Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.
Norman Granz
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Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.
Slash Guns N' Roses
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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.
Willa Cather
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Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.
Kevin Spacey
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I think his development has been lightning quick because of his God-given talent. He has great aptitude and he's been able to develop very fast in front of our eyes at every level.
Brian Sabean
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We're not drafting for next year's team. We're drafting for a talent base. An immediate need primarily is not as important as getting a player with the best potential available.
Chris Wallace
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A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.
Hippocrates
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I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
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I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.
Daniel Dewan Sewell
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Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never.
Lord Byron
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I think where Playground is heading is deeper into that marriage between stage, film and television, with the increasing number of people in the film business working in television, obviously something that we were very influential in starting and doing at HBO. And I think that that's the focus of where I see the company moving forward, continuing to explore that intersection of all that talent.
Colin Callender
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I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
Thomas A. Edison