Best Talent Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.”

Thinking Writing I Can Stories Film Talent Brilliant Short Story Just Do It Film Writing

Author:Samantha Morton

“A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.”

Thinking Persons Responsibility Talent

Author:Jessye Norman

“One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.”

Needs Talent Ambition Vocation

Author:Jessye Norman

“I want to see genuine talent rewarded.”

Want Talent Genuine

Author:George Osborne

“I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.”

Want Children Stars Fans Talent Ambitious

Author:John Otway

“Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.”

Certain Talent Amount Musical Hopefully Musical Talent

Author:Leo Ornstein

“Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton.”

Littles Bigs Political Talent News Bills Clinton Journalist League Thinker Governors Tickets Covering

Author:Ron Fournier

“You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.”

Men Long Made Remember Names Stars Loses Gone Talent Directors Silent Finished Screens Producers Titles Great Talent

Author:Ernst Lubitsch

“I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.”

Thinking Enjoy Talent Mediums Great Talent

Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.”

Years Ideas Different Shows Next Talent Television Personality Aspect Seasons Enormous Next Year Stand Alone

Author:Sarah Paulson

“I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.”

People Way Difficult Situation Talent Intelligent Guitar My Way Difficult Situations

Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.”

Want Feels Hard Sports Pieces Talent Hard Work Competing Equipment

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.”

Way Years Two Feelings Wanted Opportunity Talent Two Years Navy Let It Go Dames Notre Dame

Author:Regis Philbin

“Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec.”

Way Needs Wells Language Talent Policy Wall Attempting Quebec

Author:Dick Pound

“The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.”

Results Stage Talent Investors Drains

Author:Sean Parker

“Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.”

Thinking Sometimes Jobs Faces Energy Effort Talent Your Face

Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.”

People Thinking Trying Sometimes Hard Done Moving Talent Hard Work Make A Move

Author:Gabrielle Reece

“I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.”

Today Artist Stars Lines Talent West Pops Justin Pop Stars Gaga Beyonce

Author:L.A. Reid

“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.”

“I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.”

Writing School Saws Talent Late Teens Zines

Author:Sonja Sohn

“The future of Arab films is absolutely up to Arabs and no one else. They've got the equipment, they've got the will, they've got the talent, now they just need a little bit of history behind them and a bit of cultural relaxation.”

Needs Littles Film Bits Behinds Talent Little Bit Equipment Relaxation

Author:Alexander Siddig

“I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!”

My Own Talent Musical Musical Talent

Author:Danny Strong

“Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.”

Men Important Universe Sides Talent Materials Concepts Structure Solar System Dogmatic Origin Of Man

Author:George Gaylord Simpson

“I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.”

Talent Youth Materials Perfection Hollywood Claims Lays

Author:Juliet Stevenson

“I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.”

Heart Sometimes Bigs Kids America Fun Watches Talent Idols Corny Admission Watchers American Idol

Author:Katey Sagal

“Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.”

People Secret Talent Truth Is Conscience Mysterious

Author:Jacques Lacan

“I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.”

Artist Talent Raw Talent

Author:Keith Urban

“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.”

Writing Matter Attention Practice Talent Instruments Crafts

Author:Susan Wiggs

“The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.”

People Way Shows Young Lines Talent Models Starting Great Things Tied New Ways Young Talent

Author:Alexander Wang

“That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.”

Knows Trying Different Ends Song Challenges Growing Up Growing Wonderful Talent Songwriters

Author:Margaret Whiting

“I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.”

Ifs Real Talent Devotion

Author:Marguerite Young

“I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of my natural talent - I'm not saying I'm that talented, but I have enough acting and writing talent to go.”

Writing Enough Would Be Natural Acting Talent Focused Moron Natural Talent

Author:Jen Kirkman

“All the billions of people who now inhabit our planet are putting a terrific strain on its aura, making it difficult, even for evolved people to become aware of their past-life knowledge and talents.”

People Inspirational Past Difficult Talent Planets Buddhism Billions Strain Terrific Our Planet Past Life Auras

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin to unfold. You will become younger each day, yet wiser.”

Ifs Mind Memories Ability Meditation Talent Buddhism Each Day Wiser Our Memories Razors Superb Retention Talents And Abilities New Talent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.”

Men Ends Running Talent Safety Compromise Perceive Reasonable Contentment Stability Progression Settlement

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“We all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our talents to creating weapons of annihilation, as so many scientists have done, or we can work to find solutions to humanities greatest problems. Our orientation is found not only in our acts, but also in the policies we support or oppose.”

“Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view - what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities? When you answer that, seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply by applying your focused effort.”

Use Today Choices Asks Opportunity Ability Answers Views Effort Quality Talent Skills Highest Focused Transcendentalism Seize The Opportunity Be Considerate Skills And Abilities

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.”

People Knows May Purpose Turns Grows Answers Stage Talent Criticism Crowds Hearing Rejection Bullying Weary

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.”

People Writing Wells Art Artist Given Talent Elements Responsible Performing Craftsman Spiritualism Writing Well Performing Well

Author:Al Franken

“CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talents of our time, and we hope things work out.”

Has Beens Home Talent Proud Work Out Our Time Great Talent Letterman Things Work Out

Author:Leslie Moonves

“I'm a huge fan of John Hughes and can say that 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' is easily a top 3 favorite. I'm also a huge fan of all the Second City talent, and I think my Dad and Bill Murray are long lost twins.”

Thinking Long Lost Cities Fans Talent Huge Dad Bills Train My Dad Planes Twins Automobile Second City

Author:Ryan McPartlin

“Self-doubt kills talent.”

Self Doubt Talent Self-doubt

Author:Edie McClurg

“There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have existed - it simply would not, because Berry Gordy, the founder of it, his parents had migrated from Georgia to Detroit where he founded Motown, and where did he get his talent?”

Certain Parent Talent Example Granted Founders Georgia Detroit Migration Berries Motown

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“Talent will come out.”

Talent

Author:Ray Walston

“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?”

Source: Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin

“When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.”

Wanted Father House Growing Up Growing Talent Painting Paint Corners Painter Bored Knocking

Author:Markus Zusak

“I hope to become an actor who succeed not from how I look, but my talent.”

Looks Actors Talent Succeed

Author:Kim Kyu-jong

“I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota.”

Talent Quota

Author:Reed Morano

“You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.”

People Kind Talent Thrive Surround Surround Yourself

Author:Joe Lo Truglio

“When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.”

Different Young Actors Talent Young Actors

Author:Dirk Benedict

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