Talent Quotes

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

Talent works, genius creates.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.