Quotes About Talent

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

Here's a guy who can use his arms and legs at the same time.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

So what are violinists? Well, I think they're really sensitive, and kind of deep.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

And very few people have great natural ability. Everyone else—and this is true of most players these days—is in the middle: On a given day, a guy is a world-beater, then the next day he's just not there.

what does 'functioning normally' mean?" I asked. "Being able to face the past. Having a normal sex life. Not lying awake all night in fits of anxiety." "Oh. Are most people able to face the past and have normal sex lives?" "Yes, as a matter of fact, I think they are," she said. "Anyway, if anyone is, it should be me. Deep down I have a talent for well-being. I can feel it." I nodded. I thought she had it, too, a talent for well-being.

They say, 'Take some graveyard dirt, you'll be a great guitar player.' Hacksaw Harney told me to try that, he said that's why he play so good. He took me along with him to get some, but I got about halfway there, and I said no. He said, 'You got to do that if you want to be a better player.' I said I guessed I was good enough.

Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.

Since when was genius found respectable?

The chances are that, being a woman, young, And pure, with such a pair of large, calm eyes, You write as well...and ill...upon the whole, As other women. If as well, what then? If even a little better,..still, what then? We want the Best in art now, or no art." (L144-149)

while humans traditionally divided themselves up into lovers and fighters, I considered myself living evidence that that was a false binary, having no skill with either set of tools. I belonged to a third group, equally useful: I was an engineer.

If Michelangelo was too proud to lean, Vincent wasn't.

I had the skills, and making myself hate them would have been a real waste of time and energy.

For a moment, Garrett permitted herself a frown at the waste of talent, though she could not say if it was because of the artistry was wasted on a maid, or because an artist was wasted as one.

Your self-doubt resides elsewhere and calcifies until it's not even doubt anymore. You are certain that everything else about you is bad. You're definitely not the best person. You're not the prettiest, you're not the thinnest, you're not the smartest, you're not the -est anything, except when it comes to singing. You do know how talented you are. This may be the only thing about you that you know is truly good.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

What we are made to do we seldom do well, what we do of our own choice we make a success of for very pride.

But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.

I loved him because I wanted to save him, and because I could not. I loved him because I wanted to be enough for him, and I was not. I loved him because I discovered that day, after years of practice, I had a talent for it.

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

Carefully honed skills enabled her to "see" the photograph with her strong eye for composition, and a heart guided by compassion. Equally

Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.