Talent Quotes · Page 84

“Whatever the blessing, the talent, or technology, we can still find some way to fuck it up.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

No talent, but yet a character. [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]

— Heinrich Heine

Part of the talent of any company is to surround yourself with people who have good spirit and help you do more…

— Marc Jacobs

Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it and wisdom to know the limit

— Anonymous

I firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal, but resources and opportunities are not.

— Michael Tubbs

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

— Christina Aguilera

Being a servant will take you places where your talent will never take you.

— Tommy Tenney

I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

— Tara Reid

Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you…

— Lee Kuan Yew

From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough…

— Ben Fountain

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it…

— David Bayles

Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said…

— Plutarch

I think any activity you have your kids in, you're all trying to live vicariously through them. And you're jealous of the…

— Abby Lee Miller

The songwriting community in Nashville really is all about your talent. It's not about your image, and you have to be humble.…

— Maren Morris

So, the role of a producer is to kind of look at the show, kind of give our takes on what we…

— Tyson Kidd

You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a…

— Steve Ovett

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought…

— Conrad Hyers

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit…

— B. B. King

In my first career I had founded my own company, with a group of MIT professors, before coming to Harvard to finish…

— Clayton Christensen

I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an…

— Halle Berry

“Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic…

— Louisa May Alcott

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding…

— Jane Austen

Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.

— Rick Warren

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

— Gloria Naylor

Talent emerges over the course of a lifetime of reciprocal interactions between the developing brain and a stimulating environment.

— Scott Barry Kaufman

Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.

— John C. Maxwell

Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.

— Betty Dodson

Talent is not confined to the introduction,,desire is not confined to the introduction, but some are confined to the right times

— Mak_786

The idea is to do out-of-the-box films that showcase my versatility and talent.

— Vir Das

“I write because I love it, not because I excel at it.  But because I write, I shall slowly excel at it.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Well sometimes, culture can stifle talent, so you have to be careful.

— Monty Williams

“Talent attracts capital more effectively than capital attracts talent.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

— Daniel Tosh

“Beauty and hype are always chosen over talent, but talent last longer and beauty and hype doesn't.”

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

There are a lot of reasons for a singer to get a film song. It doesn't only require talent, there are a…

— Rahul Vaidya

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe…

— Muhammad Ali

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent

— Julie Christie