Top 1200 Great Talent Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates

I'm loaded with talent.

I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors.

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

My talent is numbers.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

When Roman Polanski did give you a "Great, great, great!" you were just like, "Thank you, Lord, for this magical moment."

Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Manchester United are a great club, and being associated with them is a great compliment for me, but Atletico are also great.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'

Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

I've been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family.

I've been given the tools necessary to be a great musician, a great entertainer, and great person that's gonna inspire everyone.

I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

Failure is important because the first time you win (or lose), it could be luck, it could be timing, or it could be talent. It's only after you fail once or twice and learn to rely equally on thought, analysis, and anticipation-in addition to speed, talent, and execution-that you can really call yourself an entrepreneur ... In the long run, it's mind over muscle, strategy over strength, and a healthy perspective-not just a lot of perspiration-that make someone a real success in his or her business and in the equally important rest of his or her life.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

Flip Saunders is a great coach and a great guy. Glen Taylor is the same way. He's a great human being.

I still hold myself and my marriage up very high. I look upon it with great pride, great honor and great memories. I have no regrets.

Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.

I was a big talent.

You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.

I have no talent for certainty.

Talent is seductive.

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

It was tough leaving Boston with a great city, a great organization and a great bunch of guys.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves; it is impossible. If you can't love yourselves, you can't love anybody else. Therefore we must gather up our great power so that we know in what ways we are good, what special abilities we have, what wisdom, what kind of talent we have, and how big our love is. When we can recognize our virtues, we can learn how to love others.

Wembley is a ground with great history. It's hosted games and players of great prestige. It's always important playing on great stages like this.

Nothing great was ever achieved without great work and great effort. It's really that simple.

I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.

Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.

The talent is in the choices.

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

I have a great band from Jersey and New York. I say that because they got great attitude, and we have a great time on stage.

The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

It's great to see wrestling expand and get the attention it deserves. It's such a great, great sport.

I was all personality and no talent.

I don't have talent. I have tenacity.

There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.

I have a talent, I can sing.

I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.