Talent Quotes

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

Talent is being able to please people.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.

There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

With some other top players I'm part of a company trying to put on events in Europe, especially Germany, but also Poland, Austria, Russia. There's so much talent coming out of the Far East now, and we want the same thing in Europe.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.