Talent Quotes

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.

Birth and wealth together have prevailed over virtue and talent in all ages.

Singing and music was my only talent. I've been blessed with this talent. I'm quite pleased with how it all came out.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

This is the deepest team we've had talent-wise, ... What I am hoping is that it ends up being the deepest team we've had knowledge-wise - professionalism, basketball IQ.

My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.

Patrick is an outstanding young man who works very hard. He has unlimited potential because of his talent. Patrick has a natural instinct for getting open and going for the ball.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

It's going to take grit and grind, and desire. It's a heart game. You can bring all the talent and say you're going to depend on that, but that only gets you so far. Every piston has to be hitting in the engine to win. You have to execute.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Natural talent only takes you so far and then it's who's working hardest.