Quotes About Raw Talent

#1. Raw talent only gets you so far in this old world and the rest is a whole lot of practice, persistence, and perspiration.

Victoria Forester

#2. What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

Bruno Mars

#3. Commercialism and Privilege hold their powers in what they devalue. They sometimes prevent raw talent from breaking light

Dew Platt

#4. Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

Eric Burns

#5. Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the ones she did. I had the raw talent and the raw human being, before the sycophants arrived.

Cynthia Lennon

#6. I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

Keith Urban

#7. My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

Michael Sheen

#8. The most successful people start with dominant talent - and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.

Tom Rath

#9. Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.

Zig Ziglar

#10. When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid, you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story, you're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

F. Gary Gray

#11. In all four years of high school, not once did I make the football team. The other part of the story is that I never even tried out. Just raw talent, I guess.

Jarod Kintz

#12. I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

Jon Voight

#13. It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

Laura Bell Bundy

#14. I've never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity that Chicago theater has, and I think it's because Chicago doesn't have Broadway or the film and TV business to distract it.

Nick Offerman

#15. One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

Paul Dano

#16. I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

Timothy Zahn

#17. It's not all about mountaintops. Mostly it's about training so that you'll know the mountaintop for what it is when you get there.

Lauren F. Winner

#18. And I'm sure everyone else would too if you only allowed them to see more of who you really are, rather than pretending to be someone you're not!

Adele Rose

#19. When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.

Wyclef Jean

#20. I don't mind getting up in front of people and playing - singing by myself, as raw as it comes, with nobody else helping me out, which shows that you have a little bit of talent.

Bronson Arroyo

#21. I'm one dude that writes his adlibs. I don't just go in there and say "Gimme a track." I say what I'ma say here [then] I put effects on my voice. Why not? I wrote it. Why not show the talent? Why be scared? That's why I hate certain fans who hate cause it's not like raw hip-hop, like boom bap.

Schoolboy Q

#22. With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.

Adrian McKinty

#23. She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#24. No, I don't have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don't know yet that a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence. Shaglike, mute and thick, a knowledge with a fur: your secret.

Karen Russell

#25. Of course, if you have thought up to now that an actor relies merely on inspiration you will have to change your mind. Talent without work is nothing more than raw unfinished material.

Constantin Stanislavski

#26. I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

Michael Arad

#27. It's not even so much about publicity, it's more just letting people know that things are available, because books aren't a flash in the pan thing. It's more like: "It took 20 years for this book to be done and now it'll be on a shelf for 20 years until the right person finds it."

Ian Christe

#28. It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

Richard Whately

#29. Meaningful work, creative work, thoughtful work, important work - this type of effort takes stretches of uninterrupted time to get into the zone. But in the modern office such long stretches just can't be found. Instead, it's just one interruption after another.

Jason Fried

#30. When angel meets Watcher, they're like two feral cats meeting each other in an alley. They raise their feathers, making their wings look spiky and larger than before.

Susan Ee

#31. I love you as much as I love Nutella.

Troye Sivan

#32. Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!

Israelmore Ayivor

#33. If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

Bob Riley

#34. Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves.

Mitch Daniels

#35. What do we do now, now that we are happy?

Samuel Beckett

#36. It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.

Zach Braff