Top 100 Quotes About Talent
#1. 'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give.
Jeremih
#2. It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
Khaled Hosseini
#3. When inspiration touches talent, she gives birth to truth and beauty.
Steven Pressfield
#4. You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.
Ted Hughes
#5. If it [talent] isn't strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it's not worth much.
Andrew Wyeth
#6. I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.
Oscar Wilde
#7. It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.
Robert Schumann
#8. I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
Madonna Ciccone
#9. Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much
David Bayles
#10. Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.
Lee Strasberg
#11. Walking next to Talent, she felt the singular, cozy comfort that steals upon one who is with a good friend.
Kristen Callihan
#12. I never trained, however, because I was a spontaneous talent. Practising spoiled my style.
Walter Moers
#13. 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
#14. People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering.
They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
Ricardo Semler
#15. Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.
Kim Wilde
#16. She's giving me that duh, really? look that my little sister gives me. Women must be born with that special talent.
Georgia Cates
#17. I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.
Anthony Hopkins
#18. If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever that means, I'm expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
Al Pacino
#19. Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.
Asafa Powell
#20. If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
Daniel Boulud
#21. Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
[Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille,
Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#22. Magic doesn't come from talent, it comes from pain.
Lev Grossman
#24. Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
Magic Johnson
#25. We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.'
Monte Irvin
#26. My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity, in whatever form these last may be expressed. This is the program I would maintain, were I a great artist.
Anton Chekhov
#27. Sow into the gift and talent God has given to you to rip an harvest
Sunday Adelaja
#28. It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#29. Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.
Mitch Kapor
#30. 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
#31. I've seen your temper, Master Talent. You haven't been privy to mine." With lazy perusal, [Mary's] gaze took in his heightened color and narrowed eyes. "While you'll be shouting about like a tot who's lost his lolly, I'll be the lash you never saw coming.
Kristen Callihan
#32. Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.
Andrew Lo
#33. I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde
#35. I wish my talent was something that could be celebrated. You see, I can talk to the dead.
Amy LaPalme
#36. The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.
Giuseppe Verdi
#37. And just as some people have obvious moral deficits, others must possess moral talent, moral expertise, and even moral genius. As with any human ability, these gradations must be expressed at the level of the brain. Game
Sam Harris
#38. He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.
David Pleat
#39. The art of governing, Dickon, is that of making use of talent wherever you do find it. Trust is too rare an attribute to make it your prime prerequisite for holding office. If I relied only upon those I truly do trust, we'd have a council of empty chairs!
Sharon Kay Penman
#40. I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.
Bennett Miller
#41. I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.
Francis Ford Coppola
#43. No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
Norman Rockwell
#44. ... because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
Louisa May Alcott
#45. I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.
Mariel Hemingway
#46. There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.
Fergie
#47. You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.
Gloria Naylor
#48. Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.
Mason Cooley
#49. Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.
Gary Owens
#50. He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.
Charles Caleb Colton
#51. If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.
Robbie Savage
#52. The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.
Stella Adler
#53. Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
Quintilian
#54. Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,
these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.
Catharine Sedgwick
#55. There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.
Honore De Balzac
#56. Armstrong was perfect for their goals - an extraordinary combination of athletic talent, drive, ambition, and ruthlessness. And once he began winning, he became the chairman and CEO of the business of making himself rich and famous.
Reed Albergotti
#58. I think she might be one of those people who are good at everything they do. She has a talent for life.
Colleen Hoover
#59. If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.
Dwight L. Moody
#60. Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts.
Elaine Paige
#62. Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Marguerite Gardiner
#63. I hope I have a little talent, but a lot of it was luck. I went through setbacks. People said I looked too young, people said I wasn't good, nobody said, 'Come here, baby, we're going to make you a star.' Early on, when I'd say, 'Can I do some anchoring?' people would look at me like I was crazy.
Katie Couric
#64. How do you want to be remembered?
~As someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
J.K. Rowling
#65. I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.
Eric Davis
#66. Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.
Brigham Young
#67. Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.
Edward Hall
#68. With technology you can now be your own record company, director, producer, etc. If you have talent, you can display it on the Internet and the world will tell you their thoughts in the matter of seconds!
Romeo Miller
#70. A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
Victor Hugo
#71. I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.
Warren Buffett
#72. Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of in-born talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind.
Maxwell Maltz
#73. Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never
Lord Byron
#74. High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.
Nancy Gibbs
#75. In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
Lionel Messi
#76. Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.
Walt Disney
#77. It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
Anatole France
#78. The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
Alex Turner
#79. You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.
Amy Bloom
#80. For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with their young ones; but sin is a heavy affair, as another of the prophets says, sitting upon a talent of lead.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#81. Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.
Clyde Butcher
#82. I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.
Nellie McKay
#83. A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.
Paul Simon
#84. I don't even like the show that much, I mean, it's about doctors. It's not like doctors are as important as actors anyway, I bet I've saved more lives with my acting talent then any doctor has.
Zach Braff
#85. What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.
Arsene Wenger
#87. Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.
Tad Williams
#88. Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#89. In the insurance business, 93 percent of those who become insurance agents don't stick it out past three years. These people who quit usually lack mental toughness. I've learned over the years that perseverance will win out - every time - over talent.
Jerry Hraban
#90. I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.
Conan O'Brien
#91. 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
#92. The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
Hector Berlioz
#93. The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent.
Britney Spears
#94. The standing ovation threw me ... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
Michael Caine
#95. 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
#96. When I start to write a song, I have the words and I have the melody, and then it's just a matter of making it to the end. I think if I have something that I could identify as a talent, it would be that I can finish a song. I kind of know intuitively where the melody should go.
Lou Barlow
#97. I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
John Cleese
#98. The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.
James Galway
#99. A talent for truth is real property. If a man loves truth better than things, people like to be around where he is. Almost everybody wishes he could be honest, but you can't have the spirit of truth when your heart is set on dickering for things.
Lloyd C. Douglas
#100. Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.
Brian Eno
