Talent Quotes
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
Joanne Rowling
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In the U.K., I came from a talent show. I was watched by millions of people, so instantly when I came out from the show, people knew who I was.
Olly Murs
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
Q-Tip
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I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
Barry Bonds
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
Garrison Keillor
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
Imogen Cunningham
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Shadowing is really a great way to learn how the entire TV-making mechanism works. I had the distinct pleasure of shadowing the gifted and talented Allison Anders, who taught me a great deal about the importance of collaboration and trusting the talent around you.
Ian Anthony Dale
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The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
Kate Mulgrew
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I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.
Gabriel Macht
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
Victoria Pendleton
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
LaToya Jackson
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
Patricia Reilly Giff
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
Dan Gilbert
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
Victor Hugo
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
Oscar Wilde
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From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
Daniel Boulud
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
Kaja Foglio
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Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
Taufik Hidayat