Real Talent Quotes:

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

- Kim Wilde

topic: Real, Obstacles, Talent, Real Talent

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

- Anna Pavlova

topic: Life, Motivational, Dance, Ballerina, Real Talent

Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.

- Paloma Faith

topic: Real, Shining, Talent, Real Talent

Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.

- George Cukor

source: Gavin Lambert, George Cukor, Robert Trachtenberg (2000). “On Cukor”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

topic: Real, People, Talent, Real Talent

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

- Pearl Bailey

topic: Work, Men, Two, Real Talent, Talent And Hard Work

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Loss, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

topic: Motivational, Success, Encouragement, Individual Success, Individual Talent

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

- Louisa May Alcott

topic: Real, Conceited, Long, Overlooked, Real Talent

Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.

- Candace Bushnell

topic: Art, Money, Real, Real Talent

Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do something and you find it a very satisfying experience then you want to do more of it. The great teachers somehow convey in their very attitude and their words and their actions and everything they do that this is an important thing you're learning. You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. That's a real talent some people have to convey the importance of that and to reflect it back to the students.

- Jeff Bezos

source: "King of Cyber-Commerce". The Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

topic: Teacher, Attitude, Real, Real Talent

When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things.

- Felix Dennis

topic: Real, Responsibility, Venture, Real Talent, New Ventures

But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.

- Charles Bukowski

source: Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

topic: Real Talent, You Lied

Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!

- Jane Fonda

topic: Father, Real, Thinking, Real Talent

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

- Charlie LeDuff

source: Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.8, Penguin

topic: Real, Men, Journalism, Real Talent

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

- Godfrey Reggio

topic: Real, People, Talent, Illiterate, Real Talent

I’m going out to let my real talent show, not to just stand there and dance around. Personally, I’d never lip-synch. It’s just not me.

- Ashlee Simpson

source: "Ashlee Simpson takes 'SNL' lip sync blame". Billboard Interview, www.today.com. October 29, 2004.

topic: Real, Going Out, Lips, Real Talent, Talent Show

THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.

- Terry Brooks

topic: Real, Wind, Names, Kvothe, Real Talent

Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then paints in all the little details, so that you feel as though you are enmeshed in Coley's brain: thinking her thoughts, feeling her confusion, anger, and, in the end, pain. I just don't think it's possible to read this book and not identify with Coley in some way.

- Amber Benson

topic: Pain, Real, Book, Real Talent

We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real talents, but so often the 30 year slog knocks it out of people.

- Uri Geller

topic: Real, Power, Years, Real Talent

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Real, Writing, Ignorance, Real Talent, Bus Driver

The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.

- Artie Lange

topic: Morning, Real, Laughing, Real Talent, Limos

I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.

- Bobbejaan Schoepen

topic: Children, Real, Thinking, Future Success, Real Talent

I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for everyone.

- Elizabeth Gillies

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Real, Hard Work, Character, Musicianship, Real Talent

I have no real talents. If I could make a living at a normal job, I'm sure I would do that.

- Daniel Tosh

source: "Mr. Daniel Tosh coming to NAU". The Lumberjack Interview, www.jackcentral.org. September 11, 2008.

topic: Jobs, Real, Normal, Real Talent

There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

source: Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

topic: Clever, Real, Thinking, Aspire, Disingenuous

I think that that's always been a real talent of mine is to be able to spot somebody who has that thing that is so non-definable, that thing that I wish I possessed.

- Rosie O'Donnell

topic: Real, Thinking, Wish, Real Talent

What I've learned over the years is it's so much better to surround yourself with real talent and hire real chefs. I learned more from the chefs I have working for me than you could ever imagine. There's nothing wrong with being able to create opportunities for people, and you don't have to do everything, take credit for everything, and have all the weight be on your shoulders.

- Michael Mina

topic: Real, Opportunity, Years, Real Talent

Unbelievable, George Michael has died at the age of 53. RIP.This dreadful year goes on and on.So sad, a real talent.

- Madonna Ciccone

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Real, Rip, Years, Real Talent

While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Art, Real, Teaching, Black Belt, Real Talent

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

- Beverly Cleary

topic: Real, Mean, Talent, Real Talent

I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

- Lauren Bacall

topic: Real, People, Talent, Real Talent

My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for language, but was stopped. When I expressed a desire to become a graphic designer, I was not stopped.

- Stefan Sagmeister

topic: Dad, Real, Desire, Real Talent

Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

- Drake

topic: Real, Winning, Talent, Real Music, Real Talent

I've met some real talents that were...real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people.People like Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, to a certain extent Jim Steranko, who is an institution all to himself. What a talent. What a genius talent.

- Mike Royer

topic: Real, People, Genius, Real Talent

My real talent was for losing clients.

- Jay Chiat

topic: Real, Clients, Losing, Real Talent

Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.

- Gayle Pemberton

source: Gayle Pemberton (1998). “The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press

topic: Mother, Real, Justice, Real Talent

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Real, Men, Heaven, Real Talent

Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.

- George Washington

topic: Art, Real, Hero, Patron, Liberal Arts

The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how to spin things and how to create doubt. Creating doubt around tobacco for fifty years when they absolutely knew it caused cancer, that was a real talent. But meanwhile, the scientists, they're not there to go on television. Their brains don't work like that.

- Robert Kenner

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Real, Cancer, Creating, Real Talent