Talent Quotes - Page 43

It's better to over-pay for A-level talent early on, even if you can't afford it. They will drive exponential value and help you win faster.

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.

I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything Id attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasnt up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished.

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents.

The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

Marathons are about tenacity as much as talent.

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

As long as you have breath, someone needs your talents.

You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.

It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product.

And I specialize in fixing things up and restoring them to their former glory.” She wondered if that talent extended to humans, maybe even humans who never really had a former glory.

I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that`s it.

I would love to sing with Christina [Aguilera]... she has so much talent... she has an amazing voice.