Quotes About Talent

Perhaps he singles out one person to show the others what he can do.

Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of in-born talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind.

Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.

El talento de los niños para resistir se debe a su ignorancia de otras posibilidades.

When I tried to explain how his generosity afforded me the opportunity to improve my writing skills, he shrugged his shoulders and said, I manage artists who make more in one night than you have ever made in a year. Yet I know no one more talented than you. His patronage was a gift as welcome as found money bearing no type of identification.

I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry, and write a lot of notes and emails and stuff. I mean, I feel like I am always writing. I do it so much, I never even thought about it as a talent. It's just something I do all the time, like breathing.

Itulah, aku sadar, yang harus mulai kulakukan: berhenti berharap punya bakat yang lebih, dan mulai menggunakan bakat yang kumiliki sebaik mungkin.

they don't seem to me to be as talented as either Adele, Taylor, or of course my sweet, sad Britney.

Maybe that's my secret talent. I have the amazing ability to resemble a snowdrop. My parents must be so proud.

Just because he played his stupid violin at Carnegie Hall when he was twelve does not make him hot.

A natural! A natural!

Jill has beauty, sophistication, depth and soul, besides having a remarkable singing voice, how does that compare to Mo'nique?" Wade said angrily.

Anyone can act if he has the will to do so, and anyone who says he wants to but doesn't have the knack for it suffers from a lack of will, not a lack of talent.

Genius will only take you to 'good.' Practice will take you to 'Master.

We need to start evaluating people based on their abilities and not on their sex or other congenital characteristics.

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

What will maintain the pinnacle position of our nation in the world: the ability to shoot a 25-foot jump shot, or the ability to solve a quadratic equation?

If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.

The franchise film era is, in many ways, a return to the studio system. Only now the major entertainment companies don't own the most important talent—they own the most important cinematic brands.

We became the most successful advanced projects company in the world by hiring talented people, paying them top dollar, and motivating them into believing that they could produce a Mach 3 airplane like the Blackbird a generation or two ahead of anybody else.

Everybody knows that most people who trade in the market lose money at it in the end. The people who persist in trying it are either (a) unintelligent, or (b) willing to lose money for the fun of the game, or (c) gifted with some uncommon and incommunicable talent. In any case they are not investors. p12

Only a fool takes pride in pretending that a skill he doesn't possess is worthless.