Talent Quotes · Page 75

I learned my first songs when I was six and seven, and when I was eight years old, I won a local…

— Roy Orbison

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

— Aberjhani

“Great players are determined by their talent, desire and willingness to play by the code.”

— Blair Singer

There's talent everywhere; we just have to make technology accessible to them.

— Aneel Bhusri

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

— Aaron Sorkin

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

— Anton Chekhov

I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.

— Pink

Jean-Marc Vallee is a talent, and working with Amy Adams was incredible.

— Sydney Sweeney

“His talent sprang from his unrivaled independence of mind and ability to focus on his work and shut out the world, yet…

— Roger Lowenstein

Successful business leaders who have helped build institutions of lasting value - all are committed to talent and a culture of excellence.…

— Bobby Kotick

At heart, I'm really interested in this marriage of theater, film and television and I think what happened in the UK and…

— Colin Callender

The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per…

— Elif Safak

In the old days, talent owned their costumes, their intellectual property, their gimmicks. They were not employees and could wrestle anywhere they…

— Jim Cornette

A couple teams will grind the shot clock down. Most of the time coaches do that, it's usually a talent deficit. They…

— Jerry West

High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems…

— Nancy Gibbs

Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there,…

— Vin Diesel

In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is…

— James Van Allen

I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm…

— Leigh Hunt

A great leader should make it clear to her team members that as a matter of culture, her job is to replace…

— Joe Lonsdale

I am an alien. I start a lot of relationships with artists because of what I'm capable of doing with the machine…

— AraabMuzik

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A real talent is a rare character having a judicious composition of latent and blatant level of personality traits and attributes like…

— Anuj Somany

Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive…

— Samuel Rutherford

She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was…

— Alice Hoffman

It's not lack of ability, not even brain or talent, it's just lack of organizing things that keep you away from success.

— Senora Roy

Everybody has their limitations and hence, we need to look for a range of voices more than the quality of singing in…

— Arjun Janya

If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.

— Bobby Sherman

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

— John C. Maxwell

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

— Maureen O'Hara

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules…

— John Cleese

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

— Taylor Hackford

Eventually, you've got to go from being a talent to being a guy that makes talent.

— Mark Henry

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

— Brett Favre

I believe in myself. I believe in my vision, my life, my talent, my art. More than anyone. No one can take…

— Sabrina Ward Harrison

All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.

— Roger Williams

You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.

— Amy Bloom

“Eventually, you get tired of seeing mediocre talent succeed, so you work as hard as they do.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

— Ernest Hemingway

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

— Samuel Foote