Quotes About Talent

Es un oficio bastante malo,' he repeated, 'loving me.' 'Yes. But it is the only one I have.' 'Don't you write any more poetry?' 'It was young girl poetry. Like young girl painting. Everyone is talented at a certain age.' At what age do you become old in this country, the Colonel thought. No one is ever old in Venice, but they grow up very fast. I grew up very rapidly in the Veneto myself and I was never as old as I was at twenty-one.

It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Genius is a gift we are given; mastery is the stewardship of our gifts.

Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished

I've solved a problem that was thought to be unsolvable. . . . And I learned that only a small part of it is talent. The rest is determination. . . . The will is everything.

People punch up," he said. "They punch the ones who are better than them. Nobody likes a kid who does something well. That

If you were to ask me what's broken in this world, I'd say it's the amount of talent found in the places we ignore.

brilliance is a kind of binary thing. You either got it or you don't. If you do, a 130 IQ and a 170 aren't that different, so long as you know how to apply what you got.

Wagner and Strauss require great and glamorous singers

Como Primer Cónsul, Napoleón decretó que todos los funcionarios públicos fuesen asalariados al servicio del estado, se preocupó de que estuviesen bien formados, y abolió la promoción basada en la corrupción y el nepotismo, reemplazándola con premios al talento y al mérito.

political talent is the least hereditary of our tendencies'.

He really is a famous poet, Nenneke. Surely you're not going to claim you've never heard his ballads." "I've heard them." The priestess winced. "Yes, indeed. Well, I don't know much about it, but maybe the ability to jump from touching lyricism to obscenities so easily is a talent.

?le ci to idzie, Tzara. Nie umiesz. ?eby kogo? dobrze zniewa?y?, nie wystarczy przemo?ne pragnienie, entuzjazm ani zapa?. Konieczny jest warsztat.

Look at his toes. He, let's be frank, has two left feet.' 'Verily,' Chamberlain Le Goff confirmed without a trace of amazement. 'There are plenty of tapestries like that in Beauclair. The master who wove them was a true master. But he drank an awful lot. As artists do.

What happens when you combine ignorance with performing talent? A president who tells the country to inject bleach.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

As a next generation leader you already possess the talent and intuition necessary to lead. But chances are it is your courage that will establish you as a leader in the minds of others. To put it in perspective, try to identify a leader worth following who didn't pop up on the public radar screen as a result of a decision or action that required courage.

I think I can work with any type of actor.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

And, in the red firelight, I blushed again, unnoticed, to think he might have chosen me because, in my innocence, he sensed a rare talent for corruption.

he might have chosen me because, in my innocence, he sensed a rare talent for corruption.

My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.