Talent Quotes
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Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find.
Bob Burg
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He walked into a room and everything stopped. Elvis was just so physically beautiful that even if he didn't have any talent... just his face, just his presence. And he was funny, charming, and complicated, but he didn't wear it on his sleeve. You didn't see that he was complicated. You saw great needs.
Tuesday Weld
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Berry Gordy discovered more superstars than anyone I know. I grew up in that environment, and I know you can develop talent and market it.
Suzanne de Passe
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Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.
Stephen Covey
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I wish they would teach it in schools: Give people the belief that they are going to do well. A lot of people are really talented and scared to follow their talent because you don't know where it's going.
Bill Burr
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He's a tremendous human being - and that's on top of all of his talent. It's about the way he handles things and the way he approaches matches; he studies, he prepares and he takes advantage of opportunities when he needs to.
Alex Riley
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In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.
Will Chase
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Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!
Thomas Carlyle
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If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.
Anthony Anderson
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People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.
Hillary Clinton
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Your talent will open the door but only your character can keep you there.
Christine Caine
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
William Faulkner
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Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
Nick Saban
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Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.
James Cook
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.
Morgan Freeman
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Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.
William Cullen Bryant
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I was born with this talent, so I've just worked hard, and now it's gone well for me. But I'm not going to lie - I didn't expect to be top of the Premier League.
Riyad Mahrez
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Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.
Red Auerbach
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I think talent decides everything. More than the method, what's important is the talent using it. There's nothing inherently wrong or right about a method, whether it be pencil drawings or 3-D CG. Pencil drawings don't have to go away, but those who continue to use the medium lack talent. So sadly, it will fade away.
Hayao Miyazaki
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I think people of lesser talent will become stars.
Howard Stern
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We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.
Erica Jong