Talent Quotes - Page 11

I don't think about a role as positive or negative. If I can play it convincingly, then I feel satisfied as an actor

You should look inside of yourself and see the person who is there

Talent is nice to have, perseverance is even better.

Talented person is talented everywhere.

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

I wish my talent was something that could be celebrated. You see, I can talk to the dead.

You don't fight the battles you know you will win, its the ones that everyone says you will lose.

You have divine abilities for a great mission.

Although it's good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy for great talent.

Adams has shown a nearly inexhaustible desire, leavened with an equal amount of sheer talent- five decades' worth and counting- in an unrelenting effort to stabilize, strengthen, and improve the standing of indigenous peoples, minority groups, and the larger society as well. He is an exemplary Native activist, indeed.

He created you with your special features because he was aware of your destination

NO MUSE IS GOOD MUSETo be an Artist you need talent, as well as a wifewho washes the socks and the children,and returns phone calls and library books and types.In other words, the reason there are so many moreMen Geniuses than Women Geniuses is not Genius.It is because Hemingway never joined the P.T.A.And Arthur Rubinstein ignored Halloween.Do you think Portnoy's creator sits through children's theatermatinees--on Saturdays?Or that Norman Mailer faced 'driver's ed' failure,chicken pox or chipped teeth?Fitzgerald's night was so tender because the fenderhis teen-ager dented happened when Papa was at a story conference.Since Picasso does the painting, Mrs. Picasso did the toilet training.And if Saul Bellow, National Book Award winner, invited thirty-threefor Thanksgiving Day dinner, I'll bet he had help.I'm sure Henry Moore was never a Cub Scout leader,and Leonard Bernstein never instructed a tricyclerOn becoming a bicycler just before he conducted.Tell me again my anatomy is not necessarily my destiny,tell me my hang-up is a personal and not a universal quandary,and I'll tell you no muse is a good museunless she also helps with the laundry.

One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like products. While every Macintosh model has had flaws (some more than others), most of them have has a sexiness and a design sensibility that has turned many consumers into instant converts. Macintosh owners upgrade far more often than most computer users for precisely this reason.” (p.98)

You were born on this planet with a definite purpose and the entire world is in need of the gift you have

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

If you're not a smart worker, it's about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you're not a hard worker, it's about how smart you work but times two from the brain.

Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.

This man has talent, that man geniusAnd here's the strange and cruel difference:Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.

Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

The emptiness of your pocket is not a recipe for you to discount the value of your passion!

But sometimes, talent isn't worth shit. There are tons of talentless people out there making zillions of dollars. And unfortunately, an equal number of brilliant artists whose name and voices you'll never hear. - Paul Hudson

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

Practice begins when you get it right.

A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.

Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

To sparkle its enough to be a Star, but to shine you have to be at Sky.

You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you write, you will learn, you will improve, and you will be better than anyone claiming to have ‘talent.

Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked

Talent is an art of gaining admiration!

To have a mission is to find the thing that you are fond of doing, a thing that you can do better than others

If I had to drink water like my cat, I’d croak over dead in no time. Maybe it’s like eating rice with chop sticks? Both are absurdly difficult and unfathomable for me. Not that I am into ‘ease’ (clearly a review of my life shouts otherwise), just some things obviously take time and talent I do not inherently possess. I move on to things I AM designed for!

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

You are your greatest asset in the business of your life.

So, each of us has a special gift and it takes time to discover it

Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog's lifestyle.

...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

...talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative.

Excellence is the key that opens successes' door.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.

Loud critics are silenced by loud success.

That same moment he ordered the hateful portrait taken out. But that did not calm his inner agitation: all his feelings and all his being were shaken to their depths, and he came to know that terrible torment which, by way of a striking exception, sometimes occurs in nature, when a weak talent strains to show itself on too grand a scale and fails; that torment which gives birth to great things in a youth, but, in passing beyond the border of dream, turns into a fruitless yearning; that dreadful torment which makes a man capable of terrible evildoing.

You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.

If he had learned anything from his father’s fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if someone else was hurt, or killed. If you won, you would be forgiven anything. You could be taken from a stinking ger and forced through the ranks until a thousand men followed your orders as if they came from the khan himself. Blood and talent. The nation was built on both.

If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

When we stop pursuing God`s purpose, our gifts and talent are misdirected.

We all have some talents and abilities that differentiate us from others

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

If a bird does not bring out all of the songs on its heart, all its symphonies die inside.

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer player's prowess is sorely mistaken. Just as mistaken as those who believe that IQ tests have anything to do with talent or that there is a relationship between penis size and sexual pleasure. Good soccer players need not to be titans sculpted by Michelangelo. In soccer, ability is much more important than shape, and in many cases skill is the art of turning limitations into virtues.

You can achieve great things by utilizing your God-given talent

Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you’re lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent’s preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it’s supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn.[…]If talent’s the foundation you rely on, and yet it’s so unreliable that you have no idea what’s going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.