Quotes About Talent

Jesse Joyce is a great writer.

Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

You don't have to have a great gift for God to use it in a great way.

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player... Only if we had him at Napoli... can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

With my size and speed, my ability to make moves and great vision, I'm sometimes feel like it's an unfair advantage over the defense.

Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great family of black American musicians I was beginning to know closely.