Talent Quotes - Page 30

Talent is what drives technology companies.

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing

I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.

Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

In the old days it was important, but not as important as it is today, to keep making success after success after success. It's terrifying today. You can maybe have one so-so movie but you've got to come back with another that's huge, if possible, and that must be very, very difficult for young talent.

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.

You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it.

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.

Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.

I have a talent for dealing with difficult men.

I have no talent for certainty.

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.

I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.

A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.