Talent Quotes
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I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on 'Britain's Got Talent'.
Geri Halliwell Spice Girls -
The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.
Alexander Morozevich
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He's an amazing talent. He's probably the most explosive back since Marshall Faulk and Barry Sanders.
Eddie George -
First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.
Ernest Hemingway -
Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is my only talent, so that's what I use. I use my talent.
Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene -
Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.
Anthony Robbins -
Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.
William Gilmore Simms -
The beauty of running your own label and your own show is that you are in charge. I get sent a huge amount of musicfrom new and established talent every day, so if I like a track, I play it - no questions asked.
Nicky Romero
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Im not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.
Sebastian Coe -
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Isaac Newton -
God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
Sarah Orne Jewett -
We as producers need to keep an eye on things and make sure we're doing great stuff, which is sometimes easy to do because of the talent we have, and sometimes not so easy.
Brad Lewis -
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
Antoine Rivarol -
God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
Erica Jong -
I grew up as an only child, and my mother was a single mom. It's always been "us." If it weren't for her nurturing and guiding my artistic talents at a young age, I don't think I'd be a professional actress and performer today.
Edwina Findley -
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.
William Faulkner -
The vast majority of Airmen we train are going to be somewhere in harm's way within the next year or two. It is up to us to impart to them the talent and skill they need to accomplish their mission in a world-class fashion and at the same time make sure we get them back safely to the families that love them.
William R. Looney III -
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.
Virginia Woolf -
I changed my hopes to being a singer when I was a child and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac Davis songs. Writing was sort of a last stand. Come to think of it, it was the only "talent" I had that anyone asked for more of.
Elizabeth Crook
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Jack shook his head. "Not one of my many talents, sadly. But if you have a cherry stem I can show you a really cool one.
Kiersten White -
Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.
Scott Adams -
In many countries, IT is a pillar of growth and attracts a lot more competitive talent.
Renee James -
Your career and your passion don't always match up. Plenty of talented people don't have the careers they want. Plenty of untalented people make millions and make movies. There is a difference between determination and talent.
Amy Poehler