Quotes About Talent

No genuine artist views himself as superior in essence to others.

Art happens when a person of talent is seized with nervous energy and discovers that he or she has nothing to do except create.

a lavishly gifted underachiever who is gaining renown less for the canvases he paints than for those we hope he'll paint.

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies." —John Gregory A Father's Legacy to His Daughters , 1774

You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it into a story. I believe that most—if not all—people are born with these seeds. What separates the writers from the non-writers is that the writers actually sit down and, you know… write.

I do not come from a family of singers. When we get together and warble Happy Birthday to one another over cake and candle, it doesn't sound as much like a song as it does a pack of jackals yapping over a fresh carcass. And in my case, it's nothing that you want to inflict on the innocent, or at least on people who haven't reported us to the city yet. Who is flat, off-key or tone deaf in the Notaro clan is all up in the air--it doesn't matter, and we can't tell, anyway.

Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

It's sad when you see somebody that talented that passes away and doesn't have to.

Its hard to take in. One of our most talented singer songwriters has left us. RIP George Michael. Such sad, tragic news. 2016 please end.

A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.

Everybody wants to collaborate with me. I was going to collaborate with Whitney Houston, but she died. Very sad, man. We were very good friends.

I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad, or if they reminded me of something, or they brought back a memory.

Very sad to hear the news about George Michael. An incredible talent who brought joy to millions of us with his music.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

Execution is the chariot of genius.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.