Talent Quotes · Page 105

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

— Don Henley

The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

— James Galway

I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.

— Ilona Andrews

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

— Tina Weymouth

“Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.”

— Orrin Woodward

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

— Katherine Dunham

Talent is only a part of the work. It is the work that generates the talent.

— Daniela Vega

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

— Jonah Lehrer

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Writers have no one to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

With this show [Stand-Up Revolution ], I loved the idea that I would be picking the talent that goes on, not the…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I liked helping talent with their matches prior to my injury. Obviously, now as a producer it becomes more a larger responsibility…

— Tyson Kidd

I don't think I was a naturally born talent, surely I had some natural attributes, which perhaps helped me in my sport,…

— Abhinav Bindra

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I just want to make my players give their most. I give them room to express themselves because that's how they develop.…

— Andre Villas-Boas

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with…

— Richard Dreyfuss

India has a large base of tech talent, and I hope that a lot of AI machine learning education online will allow…

— Andrew Ng

“Natural talents begin to blossom early, but they get nipped in the bud by what I call "the parent, the peer group…

— Janet, Bray Attwood

There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune,…

— Jonathan Swift

“How could I explain why I'd acted that way? How could I explain how scary it was, to find out that I…

— Susan Bischoff

I do feel that both visual artists and writers look out at the world in a similar way, and wonder at what…

— Connie Wanek

Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are…

— Germaine Greer

When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It…

— Alan Garner

“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he…

— Ernest Hemingway

I place a higher value on work ethic than talent, because, in certain areas, you just need to cast, you need to…

— Damon Lindelof

For a player with his talent, it is about doing it consistently week in, week out and over 90 minutes.

— Chris Hughton

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Asking for and receiving help is a way to prime the pump of generosity.”

— Jay Perry

With all the talent around, it's sort of amazing that a woman could be up here with us.

— Ralph Kiner

There is one thing that can beat talent, the desire and spirit strong

— Rio Takabha

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

— Jeff Bridges

“It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the…

— Anonymous

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

— Anatole France

“We demonstrate deep respect for our talent when we say no to the unimportant.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

— Franz Grillparzer

I was nobody in Nashville and I was thankful for that. I had to get by on my talent.

— Megan McKenna

If the girls and boys have talent and feel like working on themselves, they can become champions.

— Rafael Nadal

I got the experience, I got the strength, I got the talent, I got the famous jump hook. That's my move.

— P. K. Subban

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer