Quotes About Talent

Brazil has so many good free-kick takers.

There are almost no takers for independent musicians in India.

I feel like when you call me inspirational, it takes away from the success that I've actually had. Would you say that to any other comic that just ripped the mic for an hour?

Michael is a gift from Allah, and he is taking him back. The world didn't appreciate him.

Singing is something I've always loved to do, and I'd never considered taking it further than the shower.

Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.

Look at where I lived! Four blocks from Lincoln Center. I used to play in the fountain. And then I started taking dance lessons. I was in 'The Nutcracker' for the N.Y. City Ballet when I was 8 and dancing in 'The Firebird' for George Balanchine when I was 9. Believe me, that's something you don't ever forget.

Creative life should be more than preaching to the converted, more than going for a core audience of 100,000 people. It should be taking risks, challenging the readership and having enough faith in one's own talent and craft to take readers on that ride.

The person most qualified to tell the tale of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the man himself, as gifted an intellect as he is an athlete.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I've done it.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

The talent is in the choices.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.

I was determined that with perseverance and faith, at some point, someone would say, 'This girl has talent,' and would cast me in something meaningful.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

Human security recognizes the importance of individuals and that the key to ensuring growth in developing countries is to foster individual talent and abilities, build self-reliance, and put people in a position to make a broader contribution to society. Growth must be inclusive, and no one must be left behind.

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.