Quotes About Talent

Everyone can find the field in which he is gifted, his favorite activity and devote his time to it, instead of working for a good income, but no satisfaction

To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift

Your gift is not what you do but what you are

Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to diminish the majorities mediocrity.

The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's either in their DNA or it's not.

Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.

Always let your talent do the talking. Never your tantrums.

And from the look on his face I could see he was one of the lucky ones, one of those people who like doing what they're good at. That's rare. When you see that in a person, you can't miss it.

you are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters

Talent and work ethic are nothing without belief.

If some musicians put half as much effort in to the business side as they do their outer look and appearances, they could be twice as far.

I'm a self-made actor in Bollywood. And when I see actors far more good-looking and talented than me struggling for a place, I feel quite happy with my place.

I remember when I was 8 years old when I first started playing organized basketball, and the coaches had the kids in single file doing two-line layups and they were struggling to get the ball up there. Me, I'm doing reverse cradle layups with the backhand spins on it, like, jump from the right side and lay it up on the left side backwards.

The purpose of an actress is not to just look beautiful and strut around like a peacock but act, too.

My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.

Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.

I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

Whenever it was spring break, someone would always have a guitar down at the beach, and they'd play a random song, and I'd sing. Eventually, hearing compliments from people saying I sounded pretty good stuck with me.

I've always felt, pound for pound, I'm one of the best guys around; but you get stuck in people's eyes in a certain way, and it takes an imaginative director who will look at you and realize you can play different kinds of parts because you are an actor.

I pretty much always stuck to the most interesting part I could play.

Chris Weidman is a stud.

Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.