Talent Quotes · Page 79

“We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

— Gedde Watanabe

Everyone's got talent at the level we're at. But being a smart, tough football player - there's a huge premium for that.

— Julian Edelman

“Human tragedies: We all want to be extraordinary and we all just want to fit in. Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.”

— Sebastyne Young

I have always been ready to fight anybody out there, anytime, anywhere. I will knock them all over. My talent speaks for…

— James Toney

Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

— David Ogilvy

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible…

— Hilary Duff

I challenge anybody to go through their career and not have a failure as a talent.

— Mark Henry

I didn't have the kind of talent or personality that kept me dreaming about Hollywood. They don't hire little colored girls to…

— Ruby Dee

To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with…

— Campbell Scott

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha…

— Jack Kerouac

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art,…

— John Baldessari

I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough.…

— David Oyelowo

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on…

— Eugen Herrigel

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I…

— Brian P. Cleary

India has plenty of talent. If they are imparted with proper training, the country will surely produce scores of wrestlers, better than…

— The Great Khali

If ever you are tempted to become discouraged or to lose faith, remember those faithful Saints who remained true in Kirtland. Hold…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Connie Wanek

“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

Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in…

— Bonnie Raitt

“The power of skills and knowledge is that they are transferable from one person to another. Their limitation is that they are…

— Marcus Buckingham

“It is not perhaps a question of truthfulness; it is rather a natural incapacity to think for herself, to take cognizance of…

— Remy de Gourmont

The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When I was younger, I didn't work hard because I could rely on my talent. That's not the right way.

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you…

— Sydney Smith

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

— Antoine Rivarol

We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Everyone has talent, some people just have a harder time realising what there talent is.

— LMB

I'm just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is…

— Martin Short

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star.

— Jeff Daniels

“Mr Humphry Davy is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist...”

— Joseph Banks

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

— Warren Beatty

Remember, when you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at it they'll tell you.

— Mario Tomasello

I'm a player that's never been blessed with an enormous amount of talent, speed, tricks.

— Joey Barton

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

— Barry Mann

Dancing is not one of my talents. But when you've had a few drinks anyone is a good dancer, right?

— Richard Madden

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.

— Norman Granz

Mario Balotelli is undoubtedly the greatest talent of Italian football.

— Giorgio Chiellini

I have worked with some incredible talent, and loved every minute of it.

— Olivia Stuck