Talent Quotes · Page 88

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

— Barry Mann

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent of wwriting, but I couldn't give up, because by the time,…

— Robert Benchley

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

— Olivia Stuck

Mario Balotelli is undoubtedly the greatest talent of Italian football.

— Giorgio Chiellini

I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

— Anonymous

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,

— Milan Kundera

“Nix and Emma: 'Looks like you just found a new talent.' 'Great. Why couldn't I be good at underwater origami or something?”

— Kresley Cole

Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.

— Nido R Qubein

There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to…

— David Wells

When you match my body size with my talent and my work ethic and my IQ as a boxer inside that ring,…

— Adrien Broner

It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone…

— Nancy Mitford

If a young man is going to get ahead, if he is going to reach the top, he must be all wrapped…

— Samuel Goldwyn

There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know…

— Tyga

This is just too awful. Such an amazing talent [like George Michael] gone too soon. Wham was part of the soundtrack to…

— Nicola Sturgeon

I hate to say it's not a Laker but Michael Jordan. He's been the greatest player I've ever seen. And I'm probably…

— Jerry West

The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the…

— Gene Kelly

I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good…

— Warren Buffett

“I see a woman whose soul is ready to come out from behind the facade of her body. In a way I…

— Frank Lingo

We have to acknowledge that we can't look to manufacturing or natural resources to drive growth like we have in the past.…

— Richard Florida

Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and…

— Arthur Young

So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We…

— Raekwon

With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees…

— Alison Moyet

I think living is serious. Living well, accepting yourself, using your talents to the fullest, enjoying yourself, that's all serious and important...But…

— Diane von Furstenberg

The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how…

— Robert Kenner

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

— Michel de Montaigne

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

— Iyanla Vanzant

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.

— Steve Denning

Being good at something is not someone's fault. It's merely a gift. Gifts should be cherished, not envied and put down.

— Anonymous

It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.

— Keren Woodward

Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.

— Brock Pierce

“No one is born with a talent. Talent is something we create on our own with practice and dedication.”

— Airicka Phoenix

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

— Ken Danby

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

— Daryl Hall

An award recognizing your talent is an honor. That matters a lot to me.

— Payal Rohatgi

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

— David Foster Wallace

Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

— David Letterman

London's top colleges attract the best young talent from around the world; they're truly a national asset.

— Munira Mirza

I tried to just rely on my talent years ago and ended up losing a couple of fights because of that.

— Paddy Pimblett

Miyazaki has a great talent, but I really struggle every time I create a new film and am far from Miyazaki.

— Makoto Shinkai