Quotes About Talent

I think I'll spend the rest of the night being really jealous of other people who have skills I wish I had.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, committment, toughness, heart, talent, guts... that's what little girls are made of. TO HELL with the sugar and spice!

Being the best at something. We can't all be equally talented at everything.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

There is no question that knowing someone in business will get you in the door, but it is your skill that will keep you in the room.

Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

All these gods, all these mortals who aided him. Men talk of his wiles. His true talent was in how well he could take from others.

Men will hear of your skill, and they will wish for you to fight their wars." He paused. "What will you answer?" "I do not know," Achilles said. "That is an answer for now. It will not be good enough later," Chiron said.

Tutti questi dèi, tutti questi mortali che lo hanno aiutato. Gli uomini parlano della sua astuzia. Il suo vero talento stava nella sua abilità a prendere dagli altri." (#Odisseo)

A boy trained for music and medicine, unleashed for murder.

It wasn't my only gift. I had found a seasoned piece of ash and began to fashion it secretly, carving off its soft layers. Over nearly two months a shape had emerged—a boy playing the lyre, head raised to the sky, mouth open, as if he were singing. I had it with me now, as I walked.

I am rich and famous. I have a talented and gorgeous husband and two beautiful children. I could go on.

Fame is a by-product. Fame is something that should happen because you do work that speaks to people and people want to know about your work. Unfortunately the personality of people has taken over from the work and the artistry and it's this thing now that stands on its own. I don't think one should ever aspire to being famous.

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

Any one could write a book," said the taxi driver. "Yes, they could, but they DON'T," said Maeve Binchy

The problem is," her brother says, striding through the attic, through the words scattered on the floor, making the curls of paper skitter and swirl around his boots, "that I have no talent for it. I cannot abide waiting.

Sometimes you're famous before you're good.

Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus I'm too talented to fail.

He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting. –--Manet to Monet, on Renoir---

talent, in both cases, is greatest when it coincides with a taste for truth—which, in short, is comforting.