Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
There are two types of football – there’s physical football and football talent.
I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that’s where the talent settled.
I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it’s not natural to me. So I don’t take it for granted… What I think is my natural ability – which is writing – I think I totally take that for granted.
Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.
I’ll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there’s no substitute for experience. I don’t care how much natural talent you may have… In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.
Very few have the talent to make others laugh without being laughed at.
In AirAsia, we consider ourselves basically a dream factory. We deliberately decided that we wanted a company where people can pursue their passion, and we wanted to make use of all the talent that we have in-house.
You have to know what your talent is, and you have to exploit it. And then, while you’re exploiting that talent, you find ways and tools to elevate other sides of you that are weaker.
Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Securing and attracting the best talent is an obsession in the tech industry for good reason. It’s your main asset; it’s your edge.
The elegance and the quality – the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn’t make any difference to me.
My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.
I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they’re trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.
Art depends on luck and talent.
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful.
I’ve got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don’t know what it does to you, I don’t really know.
‘Fight Master’ is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That’s something it has in common with ‘The Ultimate Fighter,’ which has always been like a farm league for the UFC, a place to develop new talent.
I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.
People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.
I did a play called ‘On Golden Pond’ in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
Monday night, there ain’t a better time to showcase your talent.
Talent is nothing without dedication and discipline, and dedication and discipline is a talent in itself.
You can have all the talent in the world, but it’s the ability to go out there every day and try to get better. And that’s the key to being successful and being successful for a long time.
What amazes me is that the whole world is fascinated by Kim Kardashian. What’s her talent?
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
I think you’re a product of your influences, your environment. You see guys with so much talent, but they got the wrong people around them telling them the wrong things. They wind up going down the wrong path.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Understanding and respecting your roots is critical not only to winning the tech talent wars but leaving a legacy that transcends bottom lines.
Happiness is perhaps painlessness, a state one rarely appreciates. Happiness, then, is very much like a great talent. It rarely gets appreciated and is taken for granted.
The Khelo India University Games is a great way to unearth talent in this country.
Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.
Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Humanity is more important to me than talent… if there’s a choice to make, I’ll go humanity over talent every time.
The very first show I did was ‘Fame L.A.’ Everyone had talent… it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.
It’s not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.
Another thing that’s pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it’s what you do with it, how you handle.
There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one’s full potential.
Australians do love a good food festival. From regional gems like The Taste of Tasmania to Margaret River Gourmet Escape, diehard eaters have a litany of opportunities to revel in Australia’s great produce and chow down on food made by some of the brightest culinary talent from here and abroad.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.
We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
To note an artist’s limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
I don’t think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
I thought about going onto the first one, Pop Idol. My mum was saying, ‘Go on!’ But I decided not to. ‘The X Factor,’ though, doesn’t really seem to be a show about musical talent anymore.
I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.
Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I’ve started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I’ve written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
