Quotes About Talent

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

I don't want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that's what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.

All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

By the time I was five, I was a little diva.

Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

Wherever there is sincerity & talent, people do recognize them. It may take some time but we should have some patience and hold on to our passion.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

For me, even my break time I like to pull out the bow and just go over a Vivaldi sonata and keep my head sharp, keep everything sharp.

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It's just an exciting time.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

They that have beauty, let them be thankful for it, and make a good use of it, like any other talent; they that have it not, let them console themselves, and do the best they can without it: certainly, though liable to be over-estimated, it is a gift of God, and not to be despised. 

Unless you write yourself, you can't know how wonderful it is; I always used to bemoan the fact that I couldn't draw, but now I'm overjoyed that at least I can write. And if I don't have the talent to write books or newspaper articles, I can always write for myself. But I want to achieve more than that.

lamentaba por no saber dibujar, pero ahora estoy más que contenta de que al menos sé escribir. Y si llego a no tener talento para escribir en los periódicos o para escribir libros, pues bien, siempre me queda la opción de escribir para mí misma. Pero

I know that I can write, a couple of my stories are good, my descriptions of the 'Secret Annex' are humorous, there's a lot in my diary that speaks, but whether I have real talent remains to be seen.

He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.

A man didn't specialize in mathematics because he had a rare talent for human relationships.

A gitar for Menolly? So we can judge the range of sounds she can make?

Sometimes those who cannot create enjoy the power to destroy.

Runcorn was second fiddle, never first, but he had played the more beautiful tune.