Talent Quotes - page 62

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record. (Dr. Dre)
I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent. View quote
Jerry Saltz
Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world. View quote
Jerry Saltz
Talent is secondary to whether players are confident. View quote
Jack Gibson
Insult not another for his want of a talent you possess: He may have others which you want. View quote
James Burgh
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. View quote
Lionel Messi
A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage. View quote
Sydney Smith
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. View quote
Sydney Smith
It is a wasted concept [by] a studio that evidently does not have the talent necessary to create something of this complexity, and my god did they screw it up! This is this year's Revelations 2012! And more to the point-it's even got a Revelations 2012 armgun! It's-[beat]-god...! It is...just...horrendously bad! View quote
TotalBiscuit
Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs. View quote
Joe Biden
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world. (Hillary Clinton)
is its openness to talent wherever found, the feminist demand for collective quotas has overturned the basic feature of our civilization. View quote
Kenneth Minogue
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A resuscitated orthodoxy, so pervasive as to be nearly invisible, rules the land. Like any religion worth its salt, it shapes our world in its image, demonizing if necessary, absorbing when possible. Thus has the great sovereign territory of what Nabokov called "unreal estate,” the continent of invisible possessions from time to talent to contentment, been either infantilized, rendered unclean, or translated into the grammar of dollars and cents. Thus has the great wilderness of the inner life been compressed into a median strip by the demands of the "real world,” which of course is anything but. View quote
Mark Slouka
Greatness is often born of the passionate dance between a rare talent and a noble purpose. View quote
Nicholas Lore
We have every mixture you can have. I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent. View quote
James G. Watt
The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent. View quote
Artie Lange
It's easy to forget you are in debt to the tune of £10, and to a woman who never forgets anything. Crikey, she can even tell you which Coronation Street character was the first one to have their brain removed (Footnote: And not have it replaced by acting talent unfortunately.) View quote
Peter Corey
Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent Seeking involves some luck now the demand is for skill. View quote
Ovid
Unforced, as conversation passed, he had the talent of saluting felicitously every theme, of listening like a judge-supreme while serious topics were disputing, or, with an epigram-surprise, of kindling smiles in ladies' eyes. View quote
Aleksandr Pushkin
If a young man is going to get ahead, if he is going to reach the top, he must be all wrapped up in what he is doing. He has to give his job - whatever it is - not only his talent but every bit of his enthusiasm and devotion. (Samuel Goldwyn)
The Group was the best thing professionally that ever happened to me. I met two wonderful men. Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman, both of whom were around thirty years old. They were magnetic, fearless leaders. During the summer I was an apprentice, they were entertaining in a Jewish summer camp... At the end of the summer they said to me: "You may have talent for something, but it's certainly not acting. View quote
Elia Kazan
No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best. View quote
Franz Schubert
Music, for Gangubai, was an expression of faith and the note had to be searched and discovered each time a phrase was attempted. ...In her case, a penetrating search for the note was more important than ornamentation. She could never achieve the sweetness, smoothness or the delicate artistry of tones that the Kirana was noted for, but with inherited talent, scrupulous cultivation and years of struggle what she achieved was unbelievable. View quote
Gangubai Hangal
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. View quote
Robert Brustein