Talent Quotes - Page 24

If you don't want to join a union, you're gonna have much more opportunity for individual expansion, individual expression of talent and achievement. But when you go to work at a place where salaries are predetermined not by your productivity and not by your talent and not by how much you work, but rather by what the union contract is, you're locked into that no matter how good a job you do. The only option you have is overtime to make more than what standard pay is.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.

Dancing is not one of my talents. But when you've had a few drinks anyone is a good dancer, right?

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.

There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.

The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.

I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.

All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.

Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture

Talent will not always find its way but commitment will.

I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.

Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.

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.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

I have an incredible talent for tripping everywhere. And I find that rather boring. Tripping and walking out of my shoes; I do it all the time when I am out at work. I'm a bit clumsy.