Talent Quotes
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
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To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.
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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.
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Do you have the heart to push yourself? If you don't, find a way to get it because talent will only get you so far. You've got to be hungry. You've got to have heart. That's just reality.
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There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
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I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
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I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
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Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.
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I parted ways with the Congress, a party that I served for so many years, because its leadership constantly humiliated me by ignoring my talent both as a leader and an administrator.
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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.
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Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
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A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.
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Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others.
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Here is a fine field for talent.
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It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.
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Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you know that the word LAUGH is linguistically related to chickens and pie? This is the book that any of us who urgently, passionately love words-to read them, roll them over the tongue and learn their life stories while laughing and eating chicken and pie-were lucky enough to be born to read.
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Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
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A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.
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Everybody, even all the people with talent and genius, they had their own kind of way. But there is one way they are all the same: They're very human, and they have this sense of giving to you. It doesn't matter what kind of way they're doing it, as long as it's getting to you-as long as you're on the same road.
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Go looking for conflict, and you'll find it. Go looking for people to take advantage of you, and they generally will. See the world as a dog-eat-dog place, and you'll always find a bigger dog looking at you as if you're his next meal. Go looking for the best in people, and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy, and good will you'll find. Ultimately, the world treats you more or less the way you expect to be treated.
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Hope is a talent like any other.
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There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Never stop training, no matter what level you're at. Never, ever stop putting your talent under a microscope and asking, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah - I'm doing all this stuff right, but what's wrong with my acting?'
