Talent Quotes - page 5

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness. (Kevin B. Rollins)

Detroit is full of talent.

Martha Reeves

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.

Nolan Ryan

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

Paula Abdul

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

Sammy Davis, Jr.

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

Taylor Hackford

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

Veronica Lake

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.

Jeanne Moreau

I'm a minor, stupid talent compared to my brother.

River Phoenix

I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror ... Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart. (Sviatoslav Richter)

Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.

Lee Kuan Yew

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Shania Twain

We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn't have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

Oscar Niemeyer

Murphy had found a spot on the street, which made me wonder if she didn't have some kind of magical talent after all. Only some kind of precognitive ESP could have gotten us a parking space on the street, in the shadow of a building, with both of us in sight of the apartment building's entrance.

Jim Butcher

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.

Käthe Kollwitz

[Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.

Miriam Makeba

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.

László Moholy-Nagy

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

Steve Martin

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

Kim Wilde

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. (Stephen Jay Gould)

And sure th' Eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd.

Samuel Johnson

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Margaret Atwood

Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.

Joseph Addison

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.

James Tobin

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