Talent Quotes

It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.

The talent is in the choices.

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are your ready?"

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

Hope is a talent like any other.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

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?'

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

This battle for global talent is so important.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.