Talent Quotes

I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

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.