Howard Hawks Quotes

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

I've got a lot of natural talent, and I'm not wasting it.

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

If you have any talent, you can't be held back, and you can't be held down.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude.

Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.

Your talent is in your choice.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Success - it's what you do with what you've got.

I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we'd be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

If you have two hands or 30 hands, show me what you can do, and we'll go from there.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

To give the best I can, sometimes you will be brilliant or not.

Talent is what you make of your situation.

If you have talent, then success will come to you.

Don't be afraid to see the gift and talent you have, because that thing could lead to a substantial career for you. Because we all do something as good or better than most people.

I always like to say that you've got to... use all your talent.

If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly.

Talents used are talents multiplied.

Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can.

When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.