Quotes About Talent

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Oamenii idolatrizeaz? talentul ?i râvnesc prea mult un anumit statut social. Mult prea mul?i nu vor s? fac? nimic dac? nu sunt recunoscu?i ca lideri; mult prea mul?i trebuie s? primeasc? laude, altfel nu manifest? nici un interes pentru munc?.

You are responsible for the ability which God has given you.—

Henri? He's just the most famous, most creative, most amazing colorist in the universe, that's all!

She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn't for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.

It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. How the artist captured the light, the details of my mother's dimples, the joy in my father's eyes, all through gentle strokes from his palette. The artist made me look alive when I felt lonely and grim inside. That's the way this man saw me. I decided then that that's what I wanted to do

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

Success will always find you if you're able to identify your true talent or gift. Simply search inwards for that which you're positively passionate about.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

We say: he has no talent, only tone. But tone is precisely what cannot be invented—we're born with it. Tone is an inherited grace, the privilege some of us have of making our organic pulsations felt—tone is more than talent, it is its essence.

Cu cât e cineva mai d?ruit, cu atât înainteaz? mai greu în plan spiritual. Talentul e un obstacol pentru viaÅ£a interioar?.

Când talentul unui scriitor se epuizeaz?, inepÅ£iile unui duhovnic umplu golul inspiraÅ£iei.

Talentul" e mijlocul cel mai sigur de a denatura totul, de a sluÅ£i înf??iÅŸarea lucrurilor ÅŸi de a te înÅŸela în privinÅ£a propriei tale persoane. ExistenÅ£a adev?rat? e apanajul acelora pe care natura nu i-a copleÅŸit cu vreo înzestrare. De aceea, e greu de conceput un univers mai fals decît cel literar ÅŸi un om mai lipsit de adev?r decît literatul. (Silogismele amaraciunii)

El talento es el medio más seguro de falsearlo todo, de deformar las cosas y de equivocarse acerca de uno mismo. Sólo poseen una existencia verdadera aquellos a quienes la naturaleza no ha abrumado con ningún don. Sería por ello difícil de imaginar un universo más falso que el universo literario, o un hombre más desprovisto de realidad que el hombre de letras.

The more gifted a man is, the less progress he makes on the spiritual level. Talent is an obstacle to the inner life.

The intrinsic value of a book does not depend on the importance of its subject (else the theologians would prevail, and mightily), but on the manner of approaching the accidental and the insignificant, of mastering the infinitesimal. The essential has never required the least talent.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

The truth is that, to every genius there is a characteristic weakness, a defect to which it naturally leans, and into which, in those inevitable moments when inspiration flags, it is apt to subside.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

The lawyer, tall and thin, had liberal opinions in place of talent.

If the man has genius ... he certainly has neither the constancy nor the patience which sanctifies it, and makes it a thing divine. He endeavors to impose on the world by placing himself on a level which he does nothing to maintain. True talent, pains-taking and honorable talent does not act thus. Men who possess such talent follow their path courageously; they accept its pains and penalties, and don't cover them with tinsel.

If many man fail to be masters in their own house this is not from lack of willingness, but of talent. As for those who are ready to undergo the toils of this terrible duel, it is quite true that they must needs possess great moral force.