Quotes About Talent

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

Succession planning has been a major priority at Southwest for quite some time. We think we have come up with a winning combination of talent for our company reorganization.

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta be creative, you gotta let your talent take over.

The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're a good person, your name will be remembered a long time.

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.

With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.