Talent Hunt Quotes

I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think. ~ Sam Hunt

If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down. ~ Tamsin Greig

Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at."
When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think. ~ David Sedaris

Come on, let's go meet the guy who thinks he's my better half . And dear God, I apologize ahead of time if he starts talking to you about how many eight-point bucks he's planning to hunt this weekend. ~ J. Lynn

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal. ~ W. H. Auden

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ~ Robert Musil

I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent. ~ Ilona Andrews

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,
to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well. ~ Leigh Hunt

So the avenues we walk down,
full of bodies wearing faces,
are full of hidden talent:
enough to make pianos moan,
sidewalks split,
streetlights deliriously flicker. ~ Tony Hoagland

I want a family someday and I know that I have to let love in to create that and I think there is someone out there for me, but I'm not on some crazy hunt for that right now. ~ Leighton Meester

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports. ~ LeBron James

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent. ~ Sara Sheridan

Your talent and abilities are limited resources. Your time is finite. If you don't make your life about what you say yes to, then it will almost certainly become what you intended to say no to. ~ Gary Keller

Talent," she said, "is Gods gift to you. What you do with it, is your gift back to him." ... The Blue Edge of Midnight, pg. 3. ~ Jonathan King

Working on 'Housewives' was very similar to 'Sex and the City.' Different cities, of course, but a high level of talent in the writing and acting on both! ~ Kyle MacLachlan

For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you're dead in the water. ~ Bill Walsh

A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,
the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,
whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,
breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever. ~ Robert Aris Willmott

He's a pygmy with only one talent, the ability to convince others he's a giant." Lamont ~ Isaac Asimov

I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball. ~ Tim Hardaway

Today, for example, one can imagine a good book being written by a Catholic, a Communist, a Fascist, a pacifist, an anarchist, perhaps by an old-style Liberal or an ordinary Conservative: one cannot imagine a good book being written by a spiritualist, a Buchmanite or a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The views that a writer holds must be compatible with sanity, in the medical sense, and with the power of continuous thought: beyond that what we ask of him is talent, which is probably another name for conviction. ~ George Orwell

The ad world used to be something of a refuge for literary types. But I feared for myself at J.W.T. It seemed to be entirely peopled by blocked dramatists, likeably shambling poets, and one-off novelists. The whole place felt like a clubworld sunset home for literary talent. ~ Martin Amis

Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything. ~ Dave Hunt

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way. ~ Helen Hunt

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man. ~ David Suchet

I live now for my work. I live for my work. I live only for my work. One day I will do work deserving of my talent & desire. One day. This I pledge. This I vow. I want you to love me for my work. But if you don't love me I can't continue my work. So please love me! - so I can continue my work. I am trapped here! I am trapped in this blond mannequin with the face. I can only breathe through that face! Those nostrils! That mouth! Help me to be perfect. If God was in us, we would be perfect. God is not in us, we know this for we are not perfect. I don't want money & fame. I want only to be perfect. The blond mannequin Monroe is me & is not me. She is not me. She is what I was born. Yes I want you to love her. So you will love me. Oh I want to love you! Where are you? I look, I look & there is no one there. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

I have always seen talented person being ignored. ~ Srinivas Shenoy

Success requires hard work, patience, resilience, talent, teamwork and yes, hard work again. Any "opportunity" promising to circumvent any of the latter is most likely a scam. Overnight success is a misconception and planning your life around it is plain senseless. ~ Chris Kirubi

A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. ~ Bruce Tulgan

Hickock whistled and rolled his eyes. "Wow!" he said, and then, summoning his talent for something very like total recall, he began an account of the long ride
the approximately ten thousand miles he and Smith had covered in the past six weeks. He talked for an hour and twenty-five minutes
from two-fifty to four-fifteen
and told, while Nye attempted to list them, of highways and hotels, motels, rivers, towns, and cities, a chorus of entwining names: Apache, El Paso, Corpus Christi, Santillo, San Luis Potosi, Acapulco, San Diego, Dallas, Omaha, Sweetwater, Stillwater, Tenville Junction, Tallahassee, Needles, Miami, Hotel Nuevo Waldorf, Somerset Hotel, Hotel Simone, Arrowhead Motel, Cherokee Motel, and many, many more. He gave them the name of the man in Mexico to whom he'd sold his own 1940 Chevrolet, and confessed that he had stolen a newer model in Iowa. ~ Truman Capote

Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you. ~ Sonia

Talent is great, but persistence is totally underrated. ~ Karen Healey

[I]f you have talent in an area and there's a big market for your skills, then that is a great area to find a job. ~ Tina Seelig

When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before. ~ Lynn A. Robinson

But the real cause was, that the people, in electing their representatives to the grand council, were particular in choosing them for their talents at talking, without inquiring whether they possessed the more rare, difficult, and oft-times important talent of holding their tongues. The consequence was, that this deliberative body was composed of the most loquacious men in the community. As they considered themselves placed there to talk, every man concluded that his duty to his constituents, and, what is more, his popularity with them, required that he should harangue on every subject, whether he understood it or not. There was an ancient mode of burying a chieftain, by every soldier throwing his shield full of earth on the corpse, until a mighty mound was formed; so, whenever a question was brought forward in this assembly, every member pressing forward to throw on his quantum of wisdom, the subject was quickly buried under a mountain of words. ~ Washington Irving

Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself ~ Sunday Adelaja

But perhaps that made me want it even more, to prove that passion was not just inherently gifted as some people believed, but that passion could be earned by anyone, a commoner or noble, even if they did not have intrinsic skill. ~ Rebecca Ross