Quotes About Talent

Choose a man on account of his skills.

Nothing is worthless on the earth, Trace your hidden skills and make yourself a precious one :)

El candidato presidencial revela un extraordinario talento para «leer» a su audiencia y dar un discurso a la medida de las esperanzas y los miedos de quienes le escuchan.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

One is a writer, or one is not.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

Talents at the bottom, only sociopaths at the top.

Theater and cinema are worn-out moles of acting talent that goes under the skin of time.

All actors are born comedians at heart.

Being an author is not as easy as it sounds. In short, an author can create thousands of actors. Also an actor can produce several musicians.

Most kings should be entertained because they lack talent except killing and scolding others.

Music today is based on more contracts, rather than audience, talent and entertainment.

The genius may appear selfish, but most of his intentions are always innocent and pure.

Your ability is ready to be put in practice.

Work is God's gift to help you discover your potential.

As the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said—as quoted by Della more often than Liv cared to count—"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

In a sense she [Sylvia Plath] was the victim of an obsessive talent that sent her out into the world to gather sensations and seek wounds that could provide creative inspiration. Having acquired the wounds she stuck her fingers into them, turning the pain and blood into lines of highly subjective poetry that both repel and fascinate the reader.

Je lis de mieux en mieux et de plus en plus vite, je lis comme si ma vie en dépendait, lire est mon seul et unique talent, si on me disait, que je n'ai plus le droit de lire j'aurais une crise d'apoplexie et j'en mourrais." (Lignes de faille)

We see how inherited wealth grants status without any guarantee of merit or talent.

Without a visible hand, markets did not at any time, and do not now, magically pave the way for the most talented to be rewarded; the well connected were and are preferentially treated.

You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.

There is much more to playing the clavier than playing written music. Do you realize with accompanying there is often nothing written out but the bass line--the left hand? There might be a few notations as to a suggested harmony, but it is up to me to fill in the music, at the proper volume, style, and harmony for the soloist--often instantly. I've heard it said that Bach questioned wether the soloist or the accompanist deserves the greatest glory.