Talent Quotes - page 4

People think that creativity is largely a matter of talent, experience, or luck. They are wrong. Talent, experience, and luck are all key elements, but there is something more fundamental, accessible, and powerful that you can use to multiply your creative effect. (Richard Koch)
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know h. View quote
Walt Disney
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent. View quote
Isaac Newton
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. View quote
Albert Einstein
Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent. View quote
Fred Allen
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone. View quote
Mario Puzo
I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde) View quote
Timothy Zahn
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words. View quote
Helen Fisher
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. View quote
Charles Cooley
You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary. (Amy Bloom)
My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period. View quote
Ivanka Trump
It seems to me that people of talent and of genius serve better than average examples for making us understand the laws of character, because they present more extreme traits. View quote
Alfred Binet
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. View quote
Roy L. Smith
For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop. View quote
Itzhak Perlman
I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman. View quote
Katherine Dunham
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent. View quote
Imogen Cunningham
You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent. View quote
Renny Harlin
If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team. View quote
Anthony Anderson
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark. View quote
Audrey Meadows
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. (Adam Rickitt)
Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both. View quote
Carroll O'Connor
Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune. View quote
Gordon Getty
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else. View quote
Herschel Walker
A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. View quote
Isaac Stern