Quotes About Talent

Quienes no escriben no saben lo bonito que es escribir. Antes siempre me lamentaba por no saber dibujar, pero ahora estoy mas que contenta de que al menos sé escribir. Y si no llego a tener talento para escribir en los periódicos o para escribir libros, pues bien, siempre me queda la opción de escribir para mí misma

A cambio de fidelidad, yo le doy mi imaginación, e incluso mi talento, si se quiere. Nunca he estado satisfecha de nuestras cuentas, pero han de mantenerse.

quante, sta 'sti piviri miserabili, erano pirsone capaci di arricchiri il munno con la loro arti? quanti tra i tanti cataferi che oramà erano nell'invisibili cimitero marino sarebbiro stati capaci di scriviri 'na poesia le cui parole avrebbiro consolato, ralligrato, inchiuto il cori di chi stava a liggirla?»

If a writer, despite his natural gifts, gives up writing because no one will publish him, then he is no writer. The artist is distinguished by his urge to create, which by very definition is a concomitant of talent.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents.

For Alan Turing did not think of himself as placed in a superior category by virtue of his brains, and only insisted upon playing what happened to be his own special part.

No matter how great your talent, talent has to work with knowledge to do anything well.

A prodigy is a group enterprise.

If it [talent] isn't strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it's not worth much.

bravo, bravo!' says Terry. 'That was il magnifico de stupendio!' 'Thank you,' says Mr Big Nose, taking a big bow.

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I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.

In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. ~Andy Warhol 1968 He revised it in 1979: In 15 minutes, everybody will be famous.

Sean's (Penn) is going to be the new Dustin Hoffman. He'll be around a long time.

Did I ever tell you I was on TV once? Yup. I was in fifth grade, and a local news team came to cover a hurricane that blew a tree into our school. I was the girl crossing her eyes behind the newscaster, just to the left. (I saved the tape. I play it, oh, twice a month. I think it shows real talent.)

No doubt about it, Myriah really was good. Her talent was true talent, not just some little act thrown together for the pageant. And there was Karen, looking awfully pretty. Kristy was nervously brushing her hair. And there was Charlotte, simply looking scared to death. She and Claudia were standing around awkwardly, almost as if they didn't even want to be there.

Sabrina looked as if she might have been born on a stage. She smiled glamorously at the audience and the judges, curtsied prettily, and shook Mrs. Peabody's hand smoothly. Okay, I thought, after all the little girls had been introduced. So Sabrina was gracious and sophisticated. So what? She might not have any talent at all. Or maybe she'd be really, really stupid and not able to answer her question.

I have worked like a dog all my life, honey. Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.

Let Art and Genius weep.

True genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in some particular direction.

Just as poor Mr Wyerley, and others we both know, profane and ridicule Scripture; and all to evidence their pretensions to the same pernicious talent, and to have it thought that they are too wise to be good.

To be inventive, to have ideas, is an organic part of being talented.

The American actor is very lucky... Because so little is asked of him.