Talent Quotes

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
Jack Nicklaus

Work, Great, Important

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.
Rashida Jones

Care, Control, Public

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

House, Welcome, White

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
Edward de Bono

Thinking, Creativity, Creative

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.
Dee Dee Myers

Time, Him, Optimism

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
Charles Barkley

Work, Relax, Main

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
Andre Breton

Said, Between, Once

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Sydney Smith

Nature, Keep, Whatever

We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.
Gordon Ramsay

Playing, United, Creating

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
Vladimir Nabokov

School, Literature

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
LaToya Jackson

Past, Person, Why

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.
Chris Isaak

Love, Good, Enough

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
Bruce Springsteen

Music, Character, Whether

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

Art, Granted, Taken

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.
Carrie Underwood

Successful, Pretty, Why

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Warren Beatty

Marriage, Special, Acting

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
Jessamyn West

Writing, Necessary, Helpful

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley

Time, Famous, Writing

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
Willa Cather

Happens, Voice, Singer

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
Jacqueline Bisset

Love, Beauty, Good

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.
Guy Kawasaki

Life, Secret, Lack

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
Rod Serling

Others, Happens, Curse

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
Hugh Leonard

Country, Problem, Genius

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
Paul Simon

Hope, Growing, Consider

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Henry James

Success, Art, Whatever

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Edgar Degas

Everyone, Difficulty, Fifty

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton.
Ron Fournier

Political, Big, News

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
Jesse Jackson

Poverty, Miss, Limit

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years.
Christina Ricci

Work, Great, Best

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.
Antonio Banderas

Movies, Working, Sometimes

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