Quotes About Talent

It can be just as present in adulthood as you see friends taking on careers, travel, moves, and relationships that you would fear. Yet deep inside you also know you have the same or more talent, desire, and potential.

accepting that no one person can relate to all of you. Indeed, accepting the loneliness that goes with giftedness may be the most freeing, empowering step of all. But also accept its opposite, that there's no need to feel isolated, for everyone is gifted in some way.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Mama could peel apples!

she would rap

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper's grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

I've known how to whistle since I was five years old.

Talent is insufficient: if it's not cultivated, it ends up, in the best cases, inventing the wheel, only to discover that this has been done already.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

Well, that's just it, I thought: you didn't just write down a raw cry of suffering. It would be boring and self-indulgent. You had to disguise it, turn it into art. That's what literature was. That was what required talent, and made people want to read what you wrote, and then they would give you money.

Deep down I have a talent for well-being. I can feel it.

A creative life has nothing to do with where you're from or how much money you earn. It's merely a reflection of the creative intellect.

Though never losing his taste for seclusion, he developed a talent for getting on with people in all walks of life, and those who came to consult or visit him were impressed as much by his courtesy and humour as by his wisdom and the quality of his mind.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom imaginable, freedom from violence and lies, no matter what form the latter two take. Such is the program I would adhere to if I were a major artist.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

A person who studies academic books seriously often fails miserably in the corporate life. The problem is largely not in the education, but usually in the intention of the people who appoint or appraise the performance of the talented employees in the organization.

A private sector employer who claims to be not getting right & bright employees and blames the academic institution for not churning out employable grads, should just show practically first if any sincere, hardworking and talented person could actually grow to high position with big designation & deserved remuneration in its own organization.

A talent shines bright till he remains away from the limelight, because under the spotlight the glare of bulb and tube light dims his light.