Talent Quotations

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It's not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made.

Some people think that there aren't many Aboriginal actors around, and if there are, they're not that good. It's stupid. There's such an incredible pool of talent out there, and they're still coming out of drama schools. People just need to take a leap of faith.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals,

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

I am thankful for all the blessings and talents I have been given, but most of all I am thankful for my loving and supportive family.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

It's not about talent once you get to the NFL because everyone's got it. It's about being willing to go that extra mile to be the best and that's something that I've always done.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

I don't think my natural talent is much different to the other gymnasts. It is a matter of how I train and how I think about my training. I also give a lot of thought to my routines.

When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.

It is both an honour and a privilege to be asked to lead NBC News. The power of the brand, the scale of the legacy, the depth of the talent all make this organisation truly great.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

I had gone to a talent show - I was interested in American hip-hop music - with my older brother, to another town, and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.

I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.

My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers.

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.

Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

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

Mine's a pretty simple strategy: there's not a lot of talent here, but there's a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

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.

When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.

I don't have any hidden talents but if you dare me to do something I'll go after it big time.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot of ways - they've got a lot of great talent, but at the same time, they don't nurture it. They lost 'Project Runway.'

It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent we have here. Someone like Ryan Gosling shouldn't have to come back here because it's a Canadian movie. He should want to come back because some of the best movies are being made here.

I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've got to work very hard - but you don't have to pull your guts out and lay them on the line in quite the same way as when you're writing for adults.

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

It’s not enough to have talent. You also have to be Hungarian.

I think it's true for men and for women, if you are even remotely attractive, people will assume you're just another pretty face and you don't have the work ethic or the talent to put in the time to flesh out a career.

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

You see Boris Becker, Mats Wilander, Nadal, Pete Sampras - they were all great when they were young. As a coach, you can see that type of talent at an early age.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.

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

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

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

I didnt really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

I have a lot of respect for people with a lot of talent.

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

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.

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.

I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at the mercy of whatever talent you have.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.

I have high expectations of myself. I always have, always will. That will never waver. I always believe in my talent - always have.