Quotes About Talent

Franni knew I loved these tours, but one year she said to me in frustration, "You don't see Bill O'Reilly going on USO tours." "That's not fair, honey," I said. "He has no talent.

Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds, leaving behind only darkness and longing.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

It is easy to get upset about the deteriorating state of one's body, but there are other ways to excel and impress than via one's legs.

No es vergonzoso admitir que no se sabe todo. Es una muestra de sabiduría, que es un talento mucho mas preciado que la fuerza física, o la capacidad de influir en la fuerza

Son pocos los individuos a quienes la musa les envía ideas brillantes envueltas para regalo. Los demás nos lo tenemos que currar.

Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

he said that I was obviously really quick-witted and that I should try out for

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

He threw down the remote with disgust and wiped his hands on the stained expanse of his yellow button-down shirt. What a shop he'd inherited. The backup system had gone on the fritz and he had a bunch of union hires who didn't know a generator from Santa Claus. And a princess anchor talent whining about going live from the field.

But more importantly, they show interest in the writer—they express confidence in the writer's talents and show faith in his or her ability to succeed. They understand what the writer is attempting. They catch the vision and then do all they can.

I couldn't tell a joke if my life depended on it.

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.

Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

Calvin had a talent for inventing abusive nicknames and he styled this amorphous opposition 'Libertines', which had a conveniently scandalous resonance, while also reflecting the undoubted fact that his opponents sought a freedom for which he saw no need.

It's not how high you jump, how fast you run. All you guys here can run faster, jump higher. But I'll tell you, I can get my friend Larry Bird and the two of us will play any two of you and when it's all said and done, we will get the last laugh.

his genius, during his earlier manhood, was of that exclusively agricultural character which applies itself to the cultivation of wild oats.

The way she said "dinner" and the way she said "champagne" gave meat and liquid their exact difference, as if by having surmounted two mediums, earth and air, her talent, running forward, achieved all others.

on Prokofiev] And, by the way, he never did learn how to orchestrate properly.

It's so unfair. People suffered, worked, thought. So much wisdom, so much talent. And they're forgotten as soon as they die. We must do everything possible to keep their memories alive, because we will be treated in the same way ourselves.