Talent Quotes

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

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.

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best.

I think that when you are in the limelight it is part of your obligation to be a good role model. A lot of kids look up to you, and you are given a God-given talent, so it is your responsibility. It isn't hard to deal with. I never have to think twice about doing anything.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

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.