Talent Quotes - Page 34

Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

You're talent, and we're the talent scouts.

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

If you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there's nothing better than breaking through. There's no better feeling than breaking through.

I've come to appreciate other people's talents.

I don't have talent. I have tenacity.

No talent, but yet a character. [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out.

Having no talent is no longer enough.

Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

England is an incredible breeding ground for talent, yet it finds it really hard to sustain it or keep it. Once you obtain any kind of success or you step off the island, your ambitions become bigger.

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.

If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it -- and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.