Top 560 Talent Quotes

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.

My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

Belief outweighs talent. Self-belief’s got me everything, self-belief.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I’m on form, I can sell anything.

Talent is going to rise to the top, whether they come from TNA or from outside.

Some hidden talent lies within everyone.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

There’s a lot of talent out there that miss their opportunities, and I just hope that AJ Styles doesn’t waste his life in TNA.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

I learned more of how to appreciate what I had then – my family, my kids, the talent that God gives you – because He can take it away at any time. He took it away from Brian through death. He took it away from me through my knees.

I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization – the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities – is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.

In the old days, talent owned their costumes, their intellectual property, their gimmicks. They were not employees and could wrestle anywhere they wanted to, and that just is not case in today’s WWE.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Top creative and innovative talent wants to live in a vibrant, transit-friendly, global city that offers access to not only great jobs but also great food, entertainment and culture.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don’t have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit, you will never succeed, regardless of your talent and ability.

Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.

You can’t teach talent. You can’t put in what God left out – but you can teach confidence.

Talent is a by-product of education; the quality of a country’s human capital depends on it.

There’s no such thing as too late. There are different roles for different ages, assuming an actress has something to offer. There aren’t many Helen Mirrens and Meryl Steeps, and it takes a lot of talent to get to that level. I hope I have it. That’s the model I aspire to if I’m lucky enough. It’s all about luck.

I guess I’m afraid to retire because I don’t know what I would do. I don’t know what my talent is. So I don’t know. So maybe I’m afraid to stop, but I’ve got to stop.

We’re all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent – criticism.

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

Every time a child’s promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

So many times I should’ve stopped or could’ve stopped and didn’t stop… So many kinds of people can get depressed and sad, and you know what? Everyone has that talent, that gift.

The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.

I had this urge to play the game of football, because so many people – I shouldn’t say so many, a handful of people – said I couldn’t do it. For me, it was one of those things that I just believe in my talent that the Lord gave me, and I wanted to take advantage of it.

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

You see Boris Becker, Mats Wilander, Nadal, Pete Sampras – they were all great when they were young. As a coach, you can see that type of talent at an early age.

I think that the most important thing a woman can have – next to talent, of course – is her hairdresser.

I want to showcase my talent, I’m not just a grime MC, I’m an artist.

The WWE is fine. They can afford to not only sign anybody they really want, but they can also afford to sign people just to keep them out of the talent pool that everybody else has.

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

Ajax have a set model, a defined youth programme – Barcelona have one too, and Juventus. And Atletico Madrid do too. Real Madrid don’t – because they alternate developing their own players with signing talent.

The only way to develop your talent is to build it inside you, how sincere you are to the art.

I’m not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.

I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

Producers now look at the talent and if they believe that the director has the potential, they are willing to shell out the money irrespective of the gender.

Since I’ve written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it’s very production-friendly and there’s terrific talent down there.

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

I’m just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is pretending he’s a genius.

An absolutely necessary part of a writer’s equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Film is not like a book; it’s not a writer’s baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by that time that you feel grateful for what they’ve done, you don’t feel possessive about it in any way.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

Without work, talent is lost.

The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is ‘luck’ or ‘zeitgeist’ – in short, things that are not in our hands.

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that’s because we were trained – until now – in theatre.

Was music my talent really? No, I don’t think I was particularly talented.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

I would hope to end my career here if it came down to it and take other roles with ‘Lucha Underground.’ I see a lot of the style I was raised on here, and I think I can help out with the young upcoming talent and hope to be around here as long as it lasts.

A few years ago I was participating in a comedic ‘Inner Beauty Pageant’ and I had to figure out a talent very last-minute. I always loved Tyra Banks’s ‘We were all rooting for you!’ moment, and so I decided to lip-sync live to the six-minute entirety of it as my talent.

Talent is an accident of genes – and a responsibility.