Talent Quotes - Page 5

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me.

It doesn't take any talent to play hard.

I don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Drive will take you much farther than talent ever could.

Your ambition outweighed your talent

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed them, and turn them to social account.

Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.

I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with.