Talent Quotes - page 54

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. (Cyril Connolly)
It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living. View quote
Rosalind Russell
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
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. View quote
Dionne Warwick
Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key. View quote
Lily Cole
We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented. View quote
Jimmy Carter
It is plain that God does not employ drugs or hygiene, nor provide them for human use; else Jesus would have recommended and employed them in his healing. The sick are more deplorably lost than the sinning, if the sick cannot rely on God for help and the sinning can. ... The universal belief in physics weighs against the high and mighty truths of Christian metaphysics. This erroneous general belief, which sustains medicine and produces all medical results, works against Christian Science[. ] ... If we would heal by the Spirit, we must not hide the talent of spiritual healing under the napkin of its form[. ] ... The tender word and Christian encouragement of an invalid, pitiful patience with his fears and the removal of them, are better than hecatombs of gushing theories, stereotyped borrowed speeches, and the doling of arguments, which are but so many parodies on legitimate Christian Science, aflame with divine Love. View quote
Mary Baker Eddy
I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it. View quote
George Clooney
The big talent is persistence. View quote
Octavia Butler
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. View quote
Jessye Norman
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. (Benedict Cumberbatch)
If you couldn't sing, which talent would you most like to have? Singing. View quote
Sanjaya Malakar
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. View quote
Og Mandino
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. View quote
John Cleese
Even more! He had a unique talent for languages and did not have to learn any. He never did any courses! When he came back from France, he spoke French. He would quickly learn the language of any country he came to – Polish, Spanish, German, Russian... This came very easily to him. He never spent as much time to learn a language as, for example, I did. I envied my brother in this case. Moreover, he not only spoke nut also wrote. The French praised his French very much. His ear for music must have helped him. Besides, he had a good natural memory. Hence were his broad communication and a career growth. View quote
Vasyl Slipak
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances. View quote
Kevin Spacey
In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent. View quote
Kobe Bryant
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I think reality television is such a special talent. View quote
Margaret Cho
I told her once I wasn't good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. View quote
Susanna Kaysen
You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces. (Will Self)
I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent. View quote
Mamie Van Doren
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark. View quote
Ben Hecht
We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal. View quote
Melissa Etheridge
The communal life has long been a sign of cooperation and of mutual respect. So too each workshop can be a cell of a community in which everybody contributes his skill. Altruism is a requisite if one is to devote one's talent to the common work. View quote
Helena Roerich