Quotes About Talent

I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

Please remember that your greatest talent is so much more powerful than your biggest fear.

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.

There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.

The real talents are those who just remain contented with what they get ,but always dissatisfied with what they give back to the society.

SUCCESS in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and PERSEVERANCE.

Those who cant usually criticize those who can.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God

Don't judge someone because of what they did not succeed at or what they were incorrect in. Everyone's a genius in their own way; they just have to discover what they are good at.

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."