Talent Quotes

Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.

~ Orrin Woodward

If I had a talent I could claim, it would be as a finder of trouble. Which is undoubtedly what I'd find by sticking my nose where it had no right to be. But would I let a thought of trouble stop me? Not a snowflake's chance in hell.

~ Keri Arthur

To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.

~ Richard Russo

Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.

~ Hiroko Sakai

It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real talent

~ Josh Stern

As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.

~ Shinichi Suzuki

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

How did the hearing go?” she asked.“We won, sort of,” Kaldar said. “We die at dawn.”“The court gave the Sheeriles twenty-four hours,” William corrected.“Yes, but ‘we die at dawn the day after tomorrow’ doesn’t sound nearlyas dramatic.”“Does it have to be dramatic all the time?” Catherine murmured.“Of course. Everyone has a talent. Yours is crocheting and mine ismaking melodramatic statements.

~ Ilona Andrews

I quit because I was good, and when you’re good and a girl at something, you should be suspicious.’‘Of what?’‘Of what part of yourself you didn’t know you were selling.

~ Kirsten Kaschock

Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

~ Abraham Verghese

i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

~ Pitbull

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

~ Ruth Handler

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

~ Denis Waitley

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

~ Tom Brady

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

~ Taylor Hackford

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

~ Junot Díaz

There's no such thing as too late. There are different roles for different ages, assuming an actress has something to offer. There aren't many Helen Mirrens and Meryl Steeps, and it takes a lot of talent to get to that level. I hope I have it. That's the model I aspire to if I'm lucky enough. It's all about luck.

~ Ayelet Zurer

Hope is a talent like any other.

~ Storm Jameson

Too many people chase dreams that they don't understand. Too many people try to go for things that they'd like to do, but they're not realistic enough to know they don't have the talent.

~ Corey Taylor

I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.

~ Ted Sarandos

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

~ Zac Brown

I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.

~ Kangana Ranaut

It's just cool to witness talent.

~ Kenan Thompson

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

~ Robert Griffin Iii

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

~ Lebron James

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

~ Michael Sheen

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

~ Nick Price

If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

~ Elon Musk

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

~ Bernard Williams

Talent works, genius creates.

~ Robert Schumann

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

~ Francis Herbert Hedge

Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.

~ Gary Owens

You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.

~ Dr. Dre

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

~ Derek Jeter

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

~ Anna Pavlova

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

~ Emily Dickinson

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

~ Beyoncé Knowles

Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.

~ John Carroll Lynch