Talent Quotes - Page 23

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.

Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent.

It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Far too many people spend a lifetime headed in the wrong direction. They go not only from the cradle to the cubicle, but then to the casket, without uncovering their greatest talents and potential.

When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.

Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.

Britain's got talent, enormous talent, that's very obvious.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

Im not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Lynn, my wife, would very much appreciate if I had a talent for anything besides music.