Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don’t have to have the most talent in the world. You don’t have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful.
As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one’s talent or value.
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.
A musician’s true talent is only tested through background music.
No one respects a talent that is concealed.
Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
In OVW, it was like a different world, pretty much. They had the talent ready to stay around for a while, with guys who weren’t over yet and guys who weren’t retiring yet. With FCW, WWE were a bit more hands-on with the writers.
It’s one thing to have talent. It’s another to figure out how to use it.
Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.
A lot of shows take place here and people of Dubai are very good listeners too. Definitely a lot of talent comes here and a lot happens here which is very encouraging for artists.
Sure, the home-field is an advantage – but so is having a lot of talent.
A career is born in public – talent in privacy.
When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, ‘The Dentist.’ I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
Challenges keep evolving as you move into different stages. When you are at a prototype stage, it’s about getting that sustenance money. Then, talent becomes an issue; your early hires are difficult to get when you aren’t too big. Later, it’s about handling growth; then, you have competition.
I don’t think one film is enough to showcase your talent or to show your abilities as an actor.
I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.
I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn’t know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn’t grab it in the way I would now.
Rock music is predictable, unless there’s great talent involved.
I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.
If you don’t have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.
Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
Yes, I’ve had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.
Don’t be afraid to see the gift and talent you have, because that thing could lead to a substantial career for you. Because we all do something as good or better than most people.
Most people don’t have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
I realized early on I was not an actor. And it was a great thing to have that realization. To see actors and see what that talent is… it wasn’t me.
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size… has ever surpassed my courage.
The multiculturalism of Britain is one of our greatest strengths in music, literature, and visual art, but the TV and film industry doesn’t tap into the multicultural talent pool in the U.K. as much as they do in the U.S.
I think the people that need to see my talent are seeing it, people who understand F1 well are valuing my performance.
I had no idea that I was ever getting into music. I did not prepare for a music career, and here I’ve found, out of pure luck, that I did have, not only a talent and an ear, but a passion for music. And I have it to this day.
I am a terrible chef; I’m not a good cook. I don’t have the talent, the patience, the desire even to cook the way these great artists that I meet around the world cook, and I’m very, very happy to support them. I invest in restaurants because I love them so much.
Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into ‘talent identification’. I am much more interested in passion – finding people who are really excited about doing something.
Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation for participants.
There are so many YA novels being made because there is so much young talent that can bring it to life. J-Law was one of the first females to do it with ‘The Hunger Games,’ and it’s been going on for a while now. With J-Law, it was like, ‘Hey, I’m Katniss,’ and then, ‘Hey, I just won an Oscar!’
The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.
Wrestling is rooted in the Indian soil, yet there isn’t enough scope for kids who come from poorer families, but have the talent, to join the sport professionally.
I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end.
Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.
Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it’s about love, integrity, and respect.
I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era.
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
There’s no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.
When I was a young actor… the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.
One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn’t natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.
I have never seen a talent like Ronaldo. He always scores, scores, scores. The first game he played for Milan, Sienna away, I said to him, ‘I can’t put you on the pitch. You are 100kg.’ ‘Mister,’ he said, ‘don’t worry, I will score.’ I put him in, and he scored twice.
I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge – just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
