Talent Quotes · Page 121

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.

— Robert Aris Willmott

We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its…

— Gore Vidal

My talents are in demand, and my unique gifts are appreciated by those around me.

— Louise Hay

Everyone thinks that having a talent is a matter of luck; no one thinks that luck could be a matter o talent.

— Jacinto Benavente

Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.

— Machine Gun Kelly

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places it leads.

— Erica Jong

Being talented was a hard way to make it. But I made it on my talent and songs.

— Steve Miller

Lily Tomlin...I used to watch reruns of Laugh-In and she was always my favorite part. She's this very unique talent and the…

— Baron Vaughn

“To be rich and talented at the same time is rare but possible, but the most talented; the genius, is the one…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I never expected to do what I can, but with my coaching staff and my training and coming to terms with my…

— Robert Whittaker

Women who have had more opportunity to develop their own strengths and talents, or who are quite satisfied and content in a…

— Hazel Hawke

I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is…

— Deepika Padukone

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His…

— Keith Jarrett

Clearly, NXT has been blessed with amazing, one-of-a-kind athletes. Our talent have great figures, they're charismatic and beautiful in their own way.…

— Mandy Rose

My father's NFL dreams never really felt like motivation to me, but it was something to aspire to. He was such a…

— Elana Meyers

But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others…

— Thomas Jefferson

We did everything we could to win this game on a tricky pitch. We created a lot of opportunities but between the…

— Frank Rijkaard

There is a clear connection between developing the skills and talents of young people, and our economic success as a province. Initiatives…

— Brad Duguid

The assumption is simply that I hit on all the things I've hit on so far by accident, that my talent is…

— Kelela

I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back...it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and…

— Liza Minnelli

Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money…

— Jesse Jackson

Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose…

— Eric Hoffer

Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.

— Lynne Cheney

It's an exciting thing to build a relationship with a talent that's outside of your comfort zone.

— Brandi Rhodes

Dirk Nowitzki is the best European player, for me, that's ever played the game. He's an unbelievable talent.

— Giannis Antetokounmpo

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

— Werner Herzog

It takes patience to listen... It takes skill to pretend that you are actually listening.

— Nikhil Saluja

“If you have any talent at all it is far better to move your audience than amaze them.”

— Segovia Andre

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

— Luc de Clapiers

The kind of roles I do don't require me to flaunt my dancing talent.

— Arshad Warsi

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.

— Diane von Furstenberg

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

— Pablo Picasso

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

— Carlisle Floyd

“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.”

— Jane Austen

I know all too well what it takes to have a hit: A little bit of luck, a little bit of work,…

— LP

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

— Steven Spielberg

“If everyone in nature were too talented not to be hunted by others, everyone would starve!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

— Shirley Chisholm