Quotes About Talent

I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with.

From my own experience, I can tell you that there are mornings when you sit down at the typewriter and knock out three pages in forty-five minutes, and you look at yourself in the toaster over breakfast and your head's all misshapen and pointy, and you say, "Son, you were born with talent.

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

I was regarded by my parents as having little musical talent other than a thin, nasal soprano voice. I was forbidden to touch my father's clarinets or saxophones, just my harmonica.

many new psychological studies now show that persistence – even more than intelligence or innate talent - is the key psychological characteristic necessary for finding fulfillment in life.

Remedying this developmental arrest is essential because many new psychological studies now show that persistence – even more than intelligence or innate talent - is the key psychological characteristic necessary for finding fulfillment in life.

Oh, sure. Brian Wilson. The big genius! Well, he wasn't such a genius when he was wetting his bed at age 14! He wasn't so cute then, was he?

Okay. But, he didn't do anything to hurt people. OW: Well, he destroyed [Erich] von Stroheim, as a man and as an artist. Literally destroyed him. And von Stroheim at that moment was, I think, demonstrably the most gifted director in Hollywood. Von Stroheim was the greatest argument against the producer. He was so clearly a genius, and so clearly should have been left alone—no matter what crazy thing he did—

Bob Evans's judgement of Beatty is most severe. According to him, Beatty didn't lose it; he never had it. "You know what Warren's greatest talent is?" he asked rhetorically, in 1994. "How many pictures has Warren made in his career? Twenty-one? How many hits did he have? Three! Bonnie and Clyde, Shampoo, and Heaven Can Wait. That's batting three for twenty-one. In baseball, you're sent back to the minors for that. Not Warren.

This might make for an awkward situation. I have a talent for awkward situations.

Er zijn vrouwen die een soufflé kunnen maken. Die op het juiste moment een recept van mokkaparfait in hun sportbeha hebben zitten. Die met de ene hand hun eigen bruiloftstaart kunnen bouwen en met de andere pepersteak Nossi Bé maken. Daar moeten wij ons allen over verheugen. Als het maar niet betekent dat wij een slecht geweten moeten hebben omdat we de eerste beginselen van het brood roosteren nog niet onder de knie hebben.

Watch anyone enter their arena of real mastery and you see it, the growing bigger than themselves. Love that.

Mediocrity recognizes nothing higher than itself. It takes talent to appreciate genius.

And his brotherís name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.

the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. They may dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any talented men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock.”

“See, I have called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every craft.

Let every skilled craftsman among you come and make everything that the LORD has commanded:

to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every artistic craft.

He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and as weavers—as artistic designers of every kind of craft.

And Saul commanded his servants, “Find me someone who plays well, and bring him to me.”

Chenaniah the head Levite was the director of the music because he was highly skilled.

Together with their relatives, who were all trained and skillful in the songs of the LORD, they numbered 288.