Quotes About Talent

A lucky few know their purpose in life from an early age. They recognise in themselves a vocation, whether it be religion, art, storytelling or the spearing of sacred cows.

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

Wealth isn't always measured in dollar signs. We each have time, talent and creativity, all of which can be powerful forces for positive change. Share your blessings in whatever form they come and to whatever level you have been blessed.

Wealth isn't always measured in dollar signs. We each have time, talent and creativity, all of which can be powerful forces for positive change

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

If you want to get better, you simply have to practice. There's no way around it. Even though Prasad, Sona, and Rex all had beneficial early experiences with music, each has had to spend thousands of hours in practice to acquire their musical prowess. Rex told me, "If people could've lived my life and all the hours I've spent practicing the tuba alone in some little room someplace, they probably wouldn't label me as being particularly talented."[6]

The human mind is a messy place with few clear distinctions. You probably have a complex mix of both fixed and growth mindsets. I do. Untangling your mindsets can be a challenge. The good news is that you can change the fixed mindsets that you might discover lurking in your own theories about the nature of musical talent.

To see talent as a gift of natural ability instead of perceiving the long hours of practice that creates talent is nothing new. Michelangelo said, "If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

So what do you think? Is musical talent something you're born with? Is talent something you either have or you don't? Is musical ability genetic, a gift that runs in your blood? Or is musical talent a result of practice? Does talent develop from mere exposure to music? Can you become more talented through effort? Your answers to these questions matter in a big way. The biggest way.

Two kinds of practice contribute to the illusion of natural talent. I call them "accidental practice" and "play as practice.

Musical ability doesn't come from either the chicken or the embryo, it's the chicken and the embryo. Talent isn't some mysterious natural ability. Talent is practice in disguise.

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

He called Alex Shimoff, a Hollenbeck detective with serious artistic talent whom he'd used before. When Shimoff's cell and home lines didn't pick up, he left a message and tried Petra Connor at Hollywood Division. Same story.

Talent," she said, "is Gods gift to you. What you do with it, is your gift back to him." ... The Blue Edge of Midnight, pg. 3.

I would have liked to play the piano. Once at a concert an elderly lady leaned toward me: "You are a pianist, aren't you?"—"Unfortunately not, madam," I had to answer with regret. Even today, the thought that I don't play the piano and never will play it suffocates me, sometimes even more than the horrors, the dark river of my past carrying me through the years. I literally can't get over it.

It is a crime every time we ask ourselves how smart a person is, instead of asking ourselves what makes that person smart.

And it was easy to believe her, standing beside him like that — her hair tied back from her face, her skin shining so, all brisk and sure and confident. And with her thoughts gleaming above her, as bright and effervescent as he'd ever seen them. Showing how she would scale the wall, break in, come down to fetch him... Scarlett's belief in her talents was absolute. It made Albert believe her too.

You don't think it's unheard of, do you, for apprentices to try too much, too soon? It often marks out those with the most talent. Arthur is livid, but he is also impressed, I can tell. I think you should confide fully in him; throw yourself on his mercy. He will like that.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have a pretty good sense of comic thing, so I'd really like to try that.

Proof had this ability to not only nurture my talent, but to see that diamond in the rough when a million people could be looking at the same thing... and just not see it.

If I was as half as good as I was. I'm still twice as good as you'll ever be.