Best Talent Quotes

#1. Choose your best talent and focus on it!

Jp

#2. I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.

Ronaldinho

#3. The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies.

Fred Wilson

#4. The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

T. S. Eliot

#5. New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.

Queen Latifah

#6. Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#7. I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness

Tom Izzo

#8. I look forward to doing everything I can in my new role to help bring more and more of the best talent and best ideas from Silicon Valley and across the nation into government.

Todd Park

#9. The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential.

James Dyson

#10. Hire the best talent to tell the story, or the view is great from my hotel.

Komla Dumor

#11. I see many founders waste too much time trying to work their networks and/or ultimately settle for mediocre but available candidates. You will definitely have to interview hard for cultural fit, but the best talent isn't cheap.

Scott Weiss

#12. The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

Alexander Whyte

#13. I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years.

Christina Ricci

#14. I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem.

Federico Pena

#15. Freeman had exercised what the dapper man called his best talent: Sitzfleisch. Freeman had explained that this German word had no equivalent in English, and literally translated as "Sitflesh." It meant the ability to sit still and work quietly.

Gregory Benford

#16. Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

Peter Berg

#17. His best talent had yet to be determined, unless you counted unrealized potential.

Charles Frazier

#18. Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

William Gilmore Simms

#19. The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

Sean Parker

#20. 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

#21. I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.

Jon Oringer

#22. 'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is.

Joe Bastianich

#23. With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

Nathan Myhrvold

#24. There are times when we RISE up to situations and recognise our INNER POWER,STRENTHS and CAPABILITY by the way we handled a siutation ! How about recognising ourselves,our POWER. our TALENT, our CAPABILITIES and then handle each situation from our BEST levels. The RESULTS are bound to be UP'd!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#25. If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

Vince Lombardi

#26. Getting caught is what I do best. It is either a natural talent (which means we can blame my family genes) or a well-hewn craft (in which case we can still blame my parents).

Wynn Wagner

#27. Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#28. It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.

Hesiod

#29. What my business partner says is, if the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have the obligation to use it as best as you can. Don't you agree?

Neil Gaiman

#30. A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

Cyril Connolly

#31. The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.

Pete Cashmore

#32. I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.

James Brown

#33. Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.

Paulo Coelho

#34. Ambition rarely has anything to do with talent. Luck is best, and talent limps along a little bit behind luck.

Charles Bukowski

#35. You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

Gore Vidal

#36. What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.

Jose Ferreira

#37. To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times.

Big Sean

#38. Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

Faith Sullivan

#39. Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

Marcus Buckingham

#40. I tell people 'America's Got Talent' is the best summer job you could have - you get to watch people strive for their dreams all summer long. So when you see me rooting for these people or dancing on the side of the stage, that's what I'd be doing if I was watching this show at home!

Nick Cannon

#41. You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time.

Rich Lesser

#42. Paul Scholes is the best player I've ever played with. There's talent in every part of his game.

Gary Neville

#43. For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human being with me. Talent isn't everything. You can have it from the cradle, but it is necessary to learn the trade to be the best.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#44. When it comes to competing with the best and brightest in whatever your talents or educational skills are, you have to have the confidence within yourself that you are able to achieve.

Ellen J. Barrier

#45. Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Wendell Phillips

#46. I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

Rahul Dravid

#47. My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

Ivanka Trump

#48. In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.

Baltasar Kormakur

#49. After 10 years TNA talent still have an inferiority complex. If you don't think that you work for the BEST COMPANY EVER then nobody else will! As a performer you hav to act and project that where you work is the pinnacle of competition! If not then the whole place just seems second rate.

Chris Jericho

#50. It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

Joseph Cook

#51. I have a talent for missing the best and greatest parties.

David Alan Grier

#52. If competition for Kaggle's top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, hedge funds - we hope the world's best data scientists will earn more than $50 million per year, just like the world's best hedge fund managers.

Anthony Goldbloom

#53. I am good at baking. I don't know if that counts as a talent, but I love to bake. Everybody says I'm good at it, so apparently I make the best banana bread.

Meaghan Jette Martin

#54. I am very proud of my musical growth and contributions to the band in the last four years. I have nothing but positive thoughts and feelings towards John, Mike, James, and John. Jordan Rudess is a friend of mine and a great talent. I wish all of them the very best!

Derek Sherinian

#55. I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

Mahesh Bhupathi

#56. To not use a talent to the best of your ability is to stifle the thing that makes you most special. It is like plucking the wings off a butterfly.

Fennel Hudson

#57. Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

Jean Kerr

#58. My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

Harper Lee

#59. The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#60. No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy ... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

Franz Schubert

#61. I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do."

Michael Jackson

#62. I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#63. Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.

Azim Premji

#64. Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

John C. Maxwell

#65. At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.

Matthew Stewart

#66. To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

Fulton J. Sheen

#67. True artists pursue greatness in craft in order to give the Lord the best fruit of the talent He has given them, not to build themselves up. They understand that true greatness is found in the heart of the servant.

Charlie Peacock

#68. Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

Carla Bley

#69. You don't do any show to be celebrated. In fact, you don't do any show thinking what's going to happen in the end. You immerse yourself in a room full of talent and a room full of designers and you hope for the best.

Susan Stroman

#70. 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

#71. The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.

Donnell Rawlings

#72. Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

Ira Glass

#73. My skills are unique. Forged over a lifetime of dedication and hard work. It is not talent. It is not luck. It is nothing less than perseverance that makes me the best at what I do. For

A. Zavarelli

#74. I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent we have here. Someone like Ryan Gosling shouldn't have to come back here because it's a Canadian movie. He should want to come back because some of the best movies are being made here.

Kevin Zegers

#75. One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.

Daniel H. Pink

#76. In her also I found what I liked best - an unfailing, kindly welcome without a hint of sentimentality, unruffled good sense, the unobtrusive talent for making all things at all times as cheerful and comfortable as circumstances allowed.

C.S. Lewis

#77. I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.

Facundo Pieres

#78. Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How many in this world do you think stand in the front rank? Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve?

Edith Pargeter

#79. Desmond Mason is one of my best friends in the world. And he's a great, great talent.

Michael Redd

#80. We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress, after all, means to look ever forward, and whatever we have trampled in our wake is best forgotten.

Steven Erikson

#81. There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

Christopher Walken

#82. [Jesus] said "Follow me" and ended up with a lot of losers. And these losers ended up, through no virtue or talent of their own, becoming saints. Jesus wasn't after the best but the worst.

Eugene H. Peterson

#83. I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it

Shreya Ghoshal

#84. Our fulfillment in life and career meets with success when we give our best as per our unique talent, gifting, strengths while willing to team up with others in the areas of our limitations...

Assegid Habtewold

#85. I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting ... around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.

Charlie Daniels

#86. Greatness is finding your natural talent, fueling it with passion, planting it in well-nourished soil, and toiling in the garden until it breaks through the earth and reaches for the stars.

Janet Autherine

#87. Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

Lord Acton

#88. Google attracts so much talent, it can afford to look beyond traditional metrics, like G.P.A. For most young people, though, going to college and doing well is still the best way to master the tools needed for many careers.

Thomas Friedman

#89. A profession that completely matches your talent, aspirations and skills is the best profession you can choose.

Eraldo Banovac

#90. Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.

Robert Greene

#91. We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best.

Tony Dungy

#92. It's not about talent once you get to the NFL because everyone's got it. It's about being willing to go that extra mile to be the best and that's something that I've always done.

Robert Griffin III

#93. If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

George Lois

#94. Before her was a man who wasted words on no one. If he said something, you could take the worth of his words to the bank. In her home was a man who had the skill and talent to be anyone and chose to be the best version of himself.

Sarah Winter

#95. I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

Jackie Evancho

#96. No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

Robert McKee

#97. The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had written Forty Words for Sorrow. Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent. If you miss Forty Words for Sorrow, you'll miss one of best novels of 2001.

Tony Hillerman

#98. Everybody has his talent, everybody has his gift from God, and we go about sharing gifts with each other, that's the way of the world, the best way.

Orson Scott Card

#99. Being best at things has nothing to do with talent; it is all about self - discipline and commitment.

M.F. Moonzajer

#100. On the whole, people with a fixed mindset prefer effortless success, since that's the best way to prove their talent.

Carol S. Dweck