Quotes About Talent

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

My home has always been show business.

Beside, 'tis known he could speak GreekAs naturally as pigs squeak:That Latin was no more difficileThan to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind — vividly, forcefully — that good writing, which stops with clarity and logic, doesn't.

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully...

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose- not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perserveringly...Even if a man fail in his efforts, it will be a satisfaction to him to enjoy the consciousness of having done his best (p.205)

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Your daughter should not be allowed to assemble the mask…but that doesn't mean I don't admire her.

Some people become professional soccer players because we are all the same.

That other girl who was going to play Kate? God rest her soul, but she was god-awful.

I was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress declared she couldn't even bear to have me mime.

Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn't sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

Musicians are the worst – they're charming if you're lucky but they ain't steady.

That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools.

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.

She stared in awe at the musicians and wished she knew how to make such beauty. It must be so tremendous to create something out of nothing. Out of sound. Out of air. Out of movement and -

Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.