Talent famous quotes
04-17-2025
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Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow -
You can shoot and edit a movie from your iPhone and upload it to YouTube. Of course, what's not universal is talent. Are you making anything that anyone really should see?
-- Adam Leipzig -
Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
-- Alan Rickman -
You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.
-- Alan Shepard -
The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
-- Albert Einstein -
I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.
-- Albert Einstein -
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
-- Albrecht Durer -
I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.
-- Alec Baldwin -
I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Everybody has a talent, but its what you do with that talent to make it great.
-- Alex Morgan -
Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
-- Alexander Pope -
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
-- Alfred Adler -
What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
-- Anais Nin -
By not sharing our interests, talents and abilities, we limit our possibilities.
-- Angela Burt-Murray -
So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.
-- Angelina Grimke -
Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.
-- Anna Camp -
I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.
-- Anna Chancellor -
Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.
-- Anna Godbersen -
I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.
-- Anna Kamienska -
All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.
-- Anne Bronte -
I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
-- Anthony Anderson -
And to get that much talent in the show—and to keep it constant and consistent—I think is a remarkable feat.
-- Anthony Head -
Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.
-- Antonio Banderas -
I always felt that the telefilm directors made wonderful films, which are even better than the big screen movies, but never got enough opportunities to showcase their talents on the big screens.
-- Arin Paul -
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.
-- Aristotle -
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
-- Aristotle -
Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch -
Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch -
Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.
-- Arshad Warsi -
Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot see.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.
-- Ashanti -
I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.
-- Ashley Judd -
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.
-- Audrey Meadows -
I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.
-- Augusta Savage -
Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.
-- Ayn Rand -
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
-- Barry Bonds -
I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
-- Barry Mann -
See God gave us the talent, but the devil make us famous.
-- Barry Sanders -
I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.
-- Ben Affleck -
Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.
-- Ben Goldacre -
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
-- Ben Hogan -
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.
-- Benjamin Carson -
Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.
-- Benjamin Moser -
I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.
-- Bernie Worrell -
I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.
-- Berry Gordy -
You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!
-- Bette Davis -
I wish you power that equals your intelligence and your strength. I wish you success that equals your talent and determination. And I wish you faith.
-- Betty Shabazz -
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
-- Beverly Cleary -
Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent,
-- Bill Walsh -
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.
-- Billy Joe Saunders -
Honestly, I think I`ve stretched a talent which is so thin it`s almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.
-- Bing Crosby -
People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.
-- Bo Belinsky -
I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.
-- Bob Barker -
A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.
-- Bob Proctor -
Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.
-- Bob Ross -
Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.
-- Bob Ross -
Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.
-- Bobby Sherman -
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.
-- Brad Gilbert -
I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.
-- Brandy Norwood -
I didnt really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.
-- Brenda Lee -
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
-- Brenda Ueland -
Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.
-- Brett Favre -
It's all about chemistry. Talent alone won't get it done.
-- Brett Favre -
I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
-- Brian Eno -
Great churches aren't built on the gifts or talents of a few, but on the sacrifice of many.
-- Brian Houston -
Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.
-- Brigham Young -
There are so many young women who throw their talent away.
-- Britt Ekland -
We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.
-- Bruce Lee -
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.
-- Bruce Paltrow -
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
-- Calvin Trillin -
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
-- Carla Bley -
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
Ronaldo is a unique player for all of his talent and his professionalism. He is a player who is extraordinarily consistent.
-- Carlo Ancelotti -
The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent.
-- Carol Haney -
I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting.
-- Carrie Underwood -
Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more.
-- Carter Ratcliff -
Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.
-- Charles Marion Russell -
The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.
-- Charlie Hunnam -
I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
-- Charlie Kaufman -
Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.
-- Charlie Kaufman -
I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.
-- Chris Isaak -
Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.
-- Christiane Amanpour -
Your talent will open the door but only your character can keep you there.
-- Christine Caine -
The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a local, perverted, nationalistic cult, by which a few major artists and many minor ones were honored for their Germanness, not their talent.
-- Christopher Isherwood -
Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.
-- Claire Shipman
