Quotes About Talent

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

To-day, the man who pays taxes to the amount of two hundred francs is virtuous; the talented man is the honest pickpocket: such truths as these are accounted trivial.

Yes: all men believe and repeat that equality of conditions is identical with equality of rights; that property and robbery are synonymous terms; that every social advantage accorded, or rather usurped, in the name of superior talent or service, is iniquity and extortion. All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

The world has many kings but only one Michelangelo.

Ciudad llena de inmigrantes, sin alma todavía tras sus edificios de vidrio y sus autopistas de concreto, donde el éxito se mide en millones de bolívares, Caracas no tiene tiempo para reconocer talentos que no vengan consagrados de antemano - Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza

Even those virtues which nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

Psychics are like porno stars," I said. "Anybody can be one.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Getting the people of great minds armed with unconquerable will in the right positions is more important than developing any strategy.

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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

But I want you to tell me what it is you think I do." "Well," Rick says, "the way it was explained to me is you put famous American talent in foreign films." "Not bad," Marvin says.

I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say, 'Okay, you're not that good. You just reached the level here.' I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.

Nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrecognized genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are the omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge 30th President

Talent by itself does nothing but make a bit of noise.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

When he played, though—when he played he could liquefy your soul. He walked on water—well, his fingers did—liquid supple and fluid smooth, running, dripping, flowing.

I have my writers' neuroses but not their talents.

The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

A degree of self-deception, she said, was an essential part of the talent for living.

But I quickly came to see, she said, that in fact there was nothing worse than to be an average white male of average talents and intelligence: even the most oppressed housewife, she said, is closer to the drama and poetry of life than he is, because as Louise Bourgeois shows us she is capable at least of holding more than one perspective.