Believe In Talent Quotes

#1. Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. Many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.

Judy Delton

#3. The great teachers believe in the growth of the intellect and talent, and they are fascinated with the process of learning.

Carol S. Dweck

#4. I believe that if we are to continue to strengthen the social and economic fabric and future of this nation, we cannot tolerate laws that drive some of our best talent to choose between living in their country or with the person they love.

Lynn Schusterman

#5. What does God mean to me? I guess I was made the way I am for some reason, and I've been able to find the talent I have, and I've been able to use it, so I'm grateful for that. I believe in God; [but] I'm not saying I'm highly religious.

Michael Phelps

#6. I believe in myself. I believe in my vision, my life, my talent, my art. More than anyone. No one can take that away from me.

Sabrina Ward Harrison

#7. You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

Alan Shepard

#8. I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people outside your walls is greater than the sum of the few you have inside. None of us are as smart as all of us.

Matt Mullenweg

#9. I believe that Detroit has a terrific geographic position. It still is a hub of one of the most important industries in the world. There's incredible engineering and other talent.

Daniel L. Doctoroff

#10. 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

#11. I have high expectations of myself. I always have, always will. That will never waver. I always believe in my talent - always have.

Russell Wilson

#12. I believe in God. He is the secret of my success. He gives people talent.

Noureddine Morceli

#13. What is in the pencil is greater than what is around it. The talents in you are greater than the environment surrounding you. Your potentials will change your environment.

Israelmore Ayivor

#14. I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

John Philip Sousa

#15. The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.

Mark Ruffalo

#16. So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.

John Mahoney

#17. As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.

Wen Jiabao

#18. In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work - brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.3 I am fascinated by this research

Lysa TerKeurst

#19. I had this urge to play the game of football, because so many people - I shouldn't say so many, a handful of people - said I couldn't do it. For me, it was one of those things that I just believe in my talent that the Lord gave me, and I wanted to take advantage of it.

Russell Wilson

#20. In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

Denis Diderot

#21. If you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there's nothing better than breaking through. There's no better feeling than breaking through.

Ice Cube

#22. I sincerely believe that there is nothing truly great in any man or woman except their character, their willingness to move beyond the realm of self and into a greater realm of selflessness. Giving back is the ultimate talent in life. That is the greatest trophy on my mantel.

Ozzie Smith

#23. It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

Bruce Paltrow

#24. I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.

Dolly Parton

#25. I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both.

Delphine Arnault

#26. In a world where celebrity equals talent, and where make-believe is called reality, it is most important to have real love, truth and stability in your life.

Bernie Brillstein

#27. They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it.

Amit Kalantri

#28. Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we are, and believe in our talents.

Harley King

#29. As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

Dexter Fletcher

#30. People tend to believe that good fortune consists of equal parts talent, hard work, and sheer luck. It's hard to deny the roles of the latter two. As to talent, I would only say it consists primarily in finding the right moment to step in.

Jack McDevitt

#31. I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.

Jeannette Walls

#32. How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.

Tamra Davis

#33. You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.

Cat Deeley

#34. If you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

Ethel Smyth

#35. I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.

Olga Kurylenko

#36. It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.

Renee O'Connor

#37. I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

Cedric Hardwicke

#38. We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.

Reid Hoffman

#39. My husband and I believe that if you treat a child well and nurture his talent and physical ability, in a healthy environment, the child will succeed no matter what.

Dominique Moceanu

#40. "Failure" isn't a word I really use. I am a very resilient person; I bounce back extremely fast, and I believe in myself and my talent as an artist.

Sebastian Roche

#41. I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

Muhammad Ali

#42. You should believe in your talent and potential. Never lose hope.

Malala Yousafzai

#43. One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must also believe in the vehicle for expressing them, in the talent.

May Sarton

#44. What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#45. I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers.

Giorgio De Chirico

#46. Among the members of these upper income groups are US academic economists, many of whom believe that the economy of the United States is working fairly well and, in particular, that it rewards talent and merit accurately and precisely. This is a very comprehensible human reaction.

Thomas Piketty

#47. I attribute my talent and my success to God, but I believe that the only way you can manifest what He has ordained for you is by being close to Him and by making it happen. But we have to stay close to Him in order to be an image of Him.

Nia Long

#48. STARS EXPLODE, WORLDS COLLIDE, THERE'S HARDLY ANYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE HUMANS CAN LIVE WITHOUT BEING FROZEN OR FRIED, AND YET YOU BELIEVE THAT A ... A BED IS A NORMAL THING. IT IS THE MOST AMAZING TALENT.

Terry Pratchett

#49. I believe deeply that every one of us has an individual talent or trait that can be used to make a difference in some way.

Jeff Orlowski

#50. I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don't need a lot of talent.

Bear Bryant

#51. I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Dean Koontz

#52. I wasn't aware that hope require a reason, any more than love. In case you have forgotten - I have no talent for hoping. I don't hope. I know. I believe. I expect.

Tessa Dare

#53. In fact I believe that one day a reappraiser will come and declare that, far from having been a frivolous firebird, I was a rigid moralist: kicking sin, cuffing stupidity, ridiculing the vulgar and cruel - and assigning sovereign power to tenderness, talent and pride.

Vladimir Nabokov

#54. You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

Vanessa Williams

#55. The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

Jamie Bamber

#56. You have to believe you're great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn't because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I'm the best player in the league.

Brett Favre

#57. 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.

Ruth Gordon

#58. Attitude is tremendously important in chasing success - in any field of endeavour. That's why I believe talent alone will get you very little in this world.

Jim Stynes