Quotes About Talent

In music, recording, writing, photography, design, film-making and any other creative endeavour, it may be true that anyone can do it, but it is not quite as true as punk sometimes seemed to suggest that anyone can do it in a way that is appreciated by others. The key point is that, without determination and application, talent and ideas are just unrealised potential. That lesson-there for anyone who wishes to learn it-is perhaps punk's , and the Clash's, greatest legacy.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Genius is fostered by energy.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

God gave me this enormous talent, but He forgot to give me the courage to use it." ... "I don't think God forgot," Justin said. "I think He simply gave you a challenge that you haven't yet conquered.

Who would be a goody that could be a genius?

Anna was convinced that the low level of literature and art in Siam was due to the fear that every talented person felt of being impounded into royal service if it became known that he had more than ordinary gifts.

Yet sometimes Renaissance Souls don't feel so lucky. Despite a long and proud history of Renaissance Souls who've negotiated treaties, invented revolutionary machines, written great novels, and led victorious armies, our culture often insists that we are defective.

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

Who would carry the bell canto - Of course Montserrat Caballe

Sá»± th?t là chúng ta không th? t?o ra má»™t thiên tài. Chúng ta ch? có th? cho ??a tr? cÆ¡ há»™i ?? hoàn thành nh?ng kh? n?ng ti?m ?n c?a mình.

It is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

Envy is often a clue that there is something latent in you that needs to be expressed.

Me parecía que mi talento iba debilitándose paulatinamente. ¿Por qué no conseguía ser una bruja decente?, me preguntaba en tales ocasiones. ¿Carecía acaso de voluntad, de entusiasmo, de coraje? No me agradaba lo bastante el poder, me decía, ni me desagradaba lo bastante la fatalidad".