T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.”
“Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.”
“Talent is given to us by our nature. Greatness, by our efforts.”
“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”
“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.”
Source: Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death
“Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.”
Source: Sex & Character
“Talent is important but it is not the key point.”
“Talent is important, and some background as well. This really is not beginner's school. I want to work with people that have achieved a certain level and with whom i can easily communicate, which means you don't have to do too much explaining so you won't waste precious time. I don't do much explaining during rehersals and we are just adjusting minor details. Simply, there is no space nor time for one to learn and each of them has to do their homework on time. That means practising, transitioning from a level to level.”
“Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.”
“Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.”
Source: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
“Talent is indispensable, although it is 'always' replaceable. Just remember the simple rules concerning talent:
Identify It,
Hire It,
Nurture It,
Reward It,
Protect It.
And when the time comes, Fire It.”
Source: How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.”
“Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.”
“Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.”
“Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.”
Source: Becket or the Honor of God
“Talent is like a little seed; when nurtured, it will flourish.”
“Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.”
“Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.”
Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou
“Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.”
“Talent is long patience.”
“Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.”
“Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.”
Source: Cosmopolis
“Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.”
“Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.”
“Talent is nice to have, but it’s not necessary. You need stamina – the will to succeed and move on against all obstacles and people who say ‘why don’t you get a proper job?”
“Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.”
Source: Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education
“Talent is not enough. It's an important component in a successful performance, but it's really only a starting point.”
“Talent is not sexually transmitted.”
“Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.”
“Talent is nothing but long impatience.”
“Talent is nothing but long patience.”
“Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.”
“Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
[Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille,
Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]”
“Talent is often a defect in character.”
“Talent is often developed at the expense of character. The greater the talent, the more the mischief.”
Source: Paths of Alir
“Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.”
“Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.”
“Talent is only a starting point.”
“Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.”
“Talent is only the starting point.”
“Talent is our No.1 operating priority and our most important asset.”
“Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.”
“Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.”
“Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop. 99% of what you need to succeed in golf are skills”
“Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.”
Source: Among my Books, etc
“Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.”