Quotes About Talent

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.

I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

I never pretended to be a great actor.

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry about trying to be famous as a singer. It's not for everyone.

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.

People enjoy doing what they do best.

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

I thought LeBron James was just going to be another addition to help me score

You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.

Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .

Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.