Quotes About Talent

I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.

I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace.

Its story line is that modern societies identify the brightest youths with ever increasing efficiency and then guide them into fairly narrow educational and occupational channels.

Jealousy tells us there is room for only one—one poet, one painter, one whatever you dream of being.

I am willing to be of service through my creativity.

Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God.

es posible ser un artista y tener éxito económico.

Artists themselves but ignorant of their true identity, shadow artists are to be found shadowing declared artists. Unable

Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Very often audacity, not talent, makes one person an artist and another a shadow artist

En consecuencia puede que ni siquiera sepan que son artistas.

Behold the rich farm boy Malachy Burns Who plays his pipe among the churns. He's a coward, he's benighted, He makes everyone feel slighted, And all things but music he spurns.

Khrennikov had an average ear for music, but perfect pitch when it came to power.

She had that uniquely English talent of demonstrating, through her scrupulously polite manner, just how awful she thought the company. She could leave a roomful crushed and rejected and yet congratulate herself on behaving perfectly. It is of course of all forms of rudeness the most offensive as it leaves no room for rebuttal.

She did draw and paint and did both diligently, but possessed modest talent. She didn't mind. Her gift and passion lay in the observation and recognition of talent and beauty, whether it was found in the work of an Italian master or the profile of a viscount-to-be.

Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn't like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.

Even a monkey could shovel up the sand if it just had a little practice. I should be able to do a lot more than that. A man has the obligation to make full use of the abilities he has

La consciencia de mis capacidades literarias es, a última hora del día y por la mañana, inabarcable.

Gall 3rst had this idea as a young boy when he noticed that those of his classmates who excelled at memorizing school assignments had prominent eyes.

It did seem unjust that Jane, who was by far the abler of the two, should sacrifice her career for Mark's.

I dinna normally answer the door. Ah, Strath said, offering a charming smile as he whipped off his hat. You are doing a fine job thus far. Well done, Mrs. Pitcairn. She eyed Strath the way a cat might eye a snake. It dinna take much in the way o'talent.

You've got what it takes, Billie Jo. Look at the size of those hands, he'd say. Look at how tall.

Nina Torrone, a young artist whose work had caught fire and was selling for over half a million per painting.

I wanted to be an artist, long time ago. But my hand was damaged, so I got into graphic design. Drawing faces was much easier with a mouse than a pen.

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.