Talent Quotes - Page 20

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Talent should minister to genius.

If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

A great cook is made from having a great sense of hospitality and trying to make people happy. Then there's natural talent. Perhaps you have a feel for ingredients, the pots, the pans and stoves, that type of thing.

I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot of ways - they've got a lot of great talent, but at the same time, they don't nurture it. They lost 'Project Runway.'

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.

Mother Earth is very talented.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.

One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must also believe in the vehicle for expressing them, in the talent.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.

Detroit is full of talent.

Everything we have - every blessing, every talent - is a gift from our Father. The only thing that's all ours is our sin.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

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