I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
Probably my sister was the only one to tell me that I was good singer until ‘America’s Got Talent.’
I think it is an inborn talent – just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.
There’s this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there’s no talent you won’t get the part.
I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
I’ve always been of the opinion that great talent can’t be held down.
The standing ovation threw me… to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
Give, give, give – what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don’t give it away? Of having stories if I don’t tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don’t share it? I don’t intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
There’s tons of people with talent; it’s the system that’s all screwed up.
Detroit is full of talent.
It’s so awesome to see a lot of the young talent really grow and compete every single day.
Jordan had phenomenal talent. He had phenomenal understanding. But he also had a mentality that I haven’t seen. He had a sense of urgency every time he stepped on the floor.
The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact.
My brother’s friend worked at a TV station, so we went in; the producer of a show asked if I wouldn’t mind taking some photos for his wife, who was a talent agent. Next thing I know, I’m enroute to the agency.
It’s not just about talent. It’s about having players with good mentality.
It’s far too much to say that effective hoping is the only – or even the biggest – part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you’re selling, and often pure, dumb luck.
My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
Our talent and skill as rappers is clearly the first thing you notice. I don’t know what we were thinking. We just really love rap and wanted to be rappers. Is that weird?
Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I’ve been issued.
The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
You always get that energy, you just want to be heard, to go out, do your thing and show people that we have just as much talent here as everywhere else.
Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.
I’m crazy excited to be performing at the MTV Brand new 2017 showcase! MTV has always been about showcasing new talent, and to be selected by the team to perform on the night is an honour!
Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.
I’ve viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.
I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it – who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.
But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you’re funny you will get over all of that.
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.
My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
I think it’s good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent.
For the most part, works of mine are untitled. There was a brief period where I had poetic titles for works, and they’re embarrassing now. I think, for the most part, it’s not something that I have talent for.
Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
The big talent is persistence.
UFC is UFC, and God bless them, they have the largest roster and some amazing fighters, but there’s amazing fighters everywhere. That’s why I am impressed with what Bellator has attempted to do with the tournament or with Aaron Pico and some of the younger talent.
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people’s ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That’s the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent – not so different from that of CEO. But during the first years of Carter’s presidency, his Cabinet was anything but businesslike, beset by infighting and meetings that ambled.
I’m quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn’t put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
I don’t think there’s any dearth of talent in India – we’ve always had the best juniors in the world.
For years, we’ve asked our suppliers to prioritize the talent and diversity of their sales teams calling on our company.
Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
Together we can build the Michigan we believe in, because we still have what we need most – the strength, the talent, the vision and the grit of the incredible people of this state.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
The crazy thing about me, man, I feel like I’m a normal guy. But, maybe I’m a little abnormal when it comes to talent or something.
I think I’ve got something when I’m onscreen, but that’s nothing to do with acting or talent.
As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that’s why this year was so successful.
I don’t think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
Concealed talent brings no reputation.
No, I firmly believe in giving my place to another person. We have a lot of talent back home. I don’t want to hang on for just the sake of hanging on.
We didn’t know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.
The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
I literally have zero friends. So I like people to adore me, but I never had a talent that made people adore me.
My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don’t think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
There’s a lot of women in the WNBA. There’s a lot of women who could be here. To be voted by the fans says a lot – that people are aware of what’s going on. I’m really thankful. I think they just really appreciate my talent so I’m definitely grateful.
To become a superstar, it’s not only the voice. You have to have all these things: talent, determination, be ready to work, ready to understand.
I don’t know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It’s more than talent and beauty. Maybe it’s the audience seeing itself in you.
