Quotes of: Godgiven-talent Keyword

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

Geoffrey Boycott

In our own lives, we will try something new and, finding that it isn't easy for us, we conclude we don't have a talent for it.

Geoff Colvin

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Carl Jung

Son, you never know who will step up with the brains and talent in a time of need and be the right one for the job.

Chris Kurtz

I can cook really complicated recipes, but it takes a real talent to do the perfect egg.

Christine Teigen

What is in the pencil is greater than what is around it. The talents in you are greater than the environment surrounding you. Your potentials will change your environment.

Israelmore Ayivor

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.

Isabelle Huppert

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

Ike Turner

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Jean Anouilh

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

James A. Baldwin

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.

Daphne du Maurier

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

Dana Spiotta

My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.

David Walton

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

David Foster Wallace

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

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

Edie Falco

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

Eric Fellner

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

Barack Obama

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

Bob Proctor

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

Barbra Streisand

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

Bess Truman