Quotes About Talent

Jess drew the way some people drink whiskey.

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear.

The writer's special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.

Then pointing to Edwin's shoes, he said: "Those look skilfully crafted. Did you make them yourself?" "Master Baldwin made them for me. The most skilled shoemaker in the village

Sufficiently generous and liberal to be open to all students of high caliber, even some who haven't benefited from genetic editing.

Derek) No casting? No practicing? He shook his head. Don't tell Simon that. Don't tell Simon what? said a voice behind us. We turned to see Simon step out of the doorway. That Tori doesn't need to use incantations to cast, Derek said. Seriously? He swore. You're right. Don't tell me. He picked his way across the roof. Better yet, don't tell her that I need incantations and weeks of practice, and I still suck.

I'm good at a lot of stuff. Right?" More silence. "You're cute," Hayley said. "Well, cute enough." "Fun to be around," I offered. "So I'm…a clown?" "At least you're a cute clown," Hayley said. "Not a scary one.

Concision is the sister of talent.

For reasons no one understood, musicians were good at decoding.

The original eight cryptanalysts were supplemented, after Pearl Harbor, by some of the musicians from the band of the sunken battleship California. For reasons no one understood, musicians were good at decoding.

The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent –

capacidad de escuchar a gente inteligente que no está de acuerdo contigo es un talento difícil de encontrar…

La capacidad de escuchar a gente inteligente que no está de acuerdo contigo es un talento difícil de encontrar… pero un presidente debe tenerlo

Saber escutar pessoas inteligentes que discordam das suas opiniões é um talento rato, mas que um presidente deveria ter.

Like all great press men, he really believed the drivel he published. His talent was to express his readers' most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.

The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent – but a president should have it.

La capacidad de escuchar a gente inteligente que no está de acuerdo contigo es un talento difícil de encontrar…

The fundamental message is self-righteous, and it takes this form: 'T. S. Eliot is a homophobe and I am not. Therefore, I am a better person than Eliot.' To which the proper response is: 'But T. S. Eliot could really write, and you can't.

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.