Quotes About Talent

A clue to the right work for you is what you will do for free.

If you want to make it in this town, being talented is just one little tiny part of the battle. Fearlessness is mandatory. And shamelessness sure as hell don't hurt.

If you want to make it in this town," the woman went on, "being talented is just one little tiny part of the battle. Fearlessness is mandatory. And shamelessness sure as hell don't hurt.

I flapped open the lid of my cardboard guitar case and whipped out my old Martin. Mr. Killen seemed a little taken aback. I think he wasn't sure whether I was going to play the guitar or brain him with it. He breathed a sigh of relief when I went into a song. Bill hustled his guitar out as fast as he could and joined in. I sang loud and strong with the security that comes with knowing that one way or another, it'll be over soon.

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

Il talento non esiste, capitano. Esistono soltanto l'ispirazione e l'ambizione.

Keller has long believed that you have to be lucky to be good, but not good to be lucky.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

government needs more flexibility to identify talent and recruit effectively for the workers with the skills it needs; it needs a pay and benefits system that is competitive with private markets; it needs a talent management system that rewards top performers and deals with poor performers, including increasing flexibility in firing those whose work is substandard. And

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.