Quotes About Talent

That's what Europe brought to the NBA: the passing skills, the shooting skills.

I was always really good with the ball, I was always passing the ball, scoring, shooting the ball. I think for me, that's just a normal thing.

I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.

I'd say my main quality is keeping the ball and my passing.

Coutinho is a friend and also a great player. He's got incredible passing ability; he knows how to put attackers in on goal.

When I was nine, I was passing by a drum class and saw them playing and I was moved. That's why I started making music.

Passing is kind of in my game all my life.

When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.

if I was to be an actor, I would love to be like peter o'toole.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

No effete dauber M.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

I know my best team, but my best team has got 15 players in it.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

Artists are called and gifted-personally, by name-to write, paint, sing, play, and dance to the glory of God.

Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can be expressed. Well, I don't know. I can't do it. It's this sort of thing that makes me belittle the whole business: what's the good of a 'talent' if you can't do it when you want to? What should we think of a woodcarver who couldn't woodcarver? or a pianist who couldn't play the piano? Bah, likewise grrr.

He had always loved to draw and paint, begging to be bought pencils, paint boxes, and paper rather than toys, spending hours wrapped up in worlds of his own creation.

Talented people succeed largely because they devote considerable time, attention, and effort to their topic of predilection. Through training, they develop well-tuned algorithms and clever shortcuts that any of us could learn if we tried, and that are carefully devised to take advantage of our brain's assets and get around its limits." —Psychologist and neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene

Philip Seymour Hoffman

it turns out that forecasting is not a "you have it or you don't" talent. It is a skill that can be cultivated.

Some people have a great sense of moral responsibility; unfortunately, it's backed up with a poor sense of musical taste. Other people have great musical ability, and very little sense of moral responsibility. It's very difficult to have a good balance. —Eric Clapton

Everything we are given or learn or possess in any real sense - - the ability to play Beethoven sonata, write books, understand the principles of physics – is intended for one thing: to draw us closer to our selves.

I truly don't know why the boys are getting all the votes - it could be because they are really amazing, and that's all there is to it. They're really, really good and every single boy deserves to be in the competition right now, and so do the two girls.