Talent Quotes
On gifts, hard-won skill, and where talent gets spent.
These quotes treat talent as both a private gift and a public resource, one dancer describing ballet as a sacred calling, another noting how so much top talent flows into finance and law instead of helping marginalized children. See Best quotes for related themes.
There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the...
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
I used to enjoy watching Ronald Koeman, even though he didn't play in my position. I loved the way he hit the ball, the talent he had to position himself.
The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.
I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range...
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
