Talent Quotes

• 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
  • Heart
  • Decided
  • Criminals

• Consummate talent and relentless passion - The Truth ain't pretty...but it rocks like crazy!

  

  Billy Squier
  • Truth
  • Pretty
  • Passion

• If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Men
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop

• Never have so many people, made so much money with so little talent.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • People
  • Money
  • Talent

• I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Women
  • Talent
  • Irritating

• I plan to do my next two albums with Lady Gaga . She is quite a talent.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • She
  • Albums
  • Lady Gaga

• 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
  • Talent
  • Guitar Playing
  • Great Movie

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

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Age
  • Talent
  • Judgment

• To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • War
  • Winning
  • Materials

• Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

  

  Ernest Jennings Ford
  • Successful
  • Talent
  • Nurture

• Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings, both rose by dint of hard work and talent to wealth and success. Jay embraces this role, styling himself as much a CEO as an artist, and he and Beyoncé have become, in a significant way, more fully America's first couple than their friends the Obamas.

  

  Andrew Hoberek
  • Work
  • Success
  • Rappers

• In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last.

  

  Sandy Koufax
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Mean

• The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Standing
  • Towns
  • Ovation

• There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Struggle
  • Ability
  • Media

• Children's lies are signs of great talent.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Lies
  • Talent
  • Children's

• You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Talent
  • Journalist
  • Thousand

• 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
  • Blessed
  • Gift
  • Sex symbol

• 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
  • Player
  • Language
  • Chess

• Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

  

  Abhinav Bindra
  • Practice
  • Talent
  • Perseverance

• That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Talent
  • Uneasy

• 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
  • Eternity
  • Confusion
  • Communion

• I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • School
  • Mother
  • Study

• He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • People
  • Soul
  • Forgiven

• I got the experience, I got the strength, I got the talent, I got the famous jump hook. That's my move.

  

  P. K. Subban
  • Experience
  • Moving
  • Famous

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