Quotes About Talent

And that goes to show that when you are great, you are just great, and even when you do something bad, you are still great.

Teenage boys fall in love with girls who have blond hair and blue eyes. Basketball coaches fall in love with players who have a cerebral court sense and a great jump shot.

Fifteen minutes in the majors means you're a great baseball player," said Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland—who never got his fifteen minutes above the Triple-A level. "People just can't understand how good you have to be to get there at all.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work

Of course you love her!" he'd replied. "She's been your best friend since you both could walk, and now she's grown up to be beautiful, talented, intelligent and witty. What's not to love about all that?

We all have differing levels of ability. What we must do is make the most of what we've got.

No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire!

you can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?...

bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...

I pride myself, after long experience, that I can begin and stop weeping at the exact points demanded in the script.

You'd have made a helluva dancer, Big Guy,

She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.

John Henry (Cardinal) Newman

One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.

You can be taught to write – you can't be taught to be an artist

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Los crímenes «perfectos» raras veces se producían, pero los había. Normalmente no se debían al gran talento de los criminales sino a la ineptitud continuada de las autoridades, y en general se definían por la cuestión prosaica de si el autor salía impune o no.

I myself have always disliked being called a "genius." It is fascinating to notice how quick people have been to intuit this aversion and avoid using the term.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.