Quotes About Talent

It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

I was blessed with the talent. God gave me the gift to put words together and make popular songs.

Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can play like that, why can't I?'

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.

Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.

The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success.

If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.

But if we all avoided doing anything for which we are not exceptionally gifted, we would do almost nothing at all and would never discover what we can become. Instead we would waste much of the span of life allotted us in keeping safe, confining activities.

Students love trying to imitate Nabokov, which teaches them a lot—mostly about why not to imitate somebody wired so differently from yourself. Nabokov wannabes don't sound just like turds, but like pretentious turds. The writer's best voice will grow from embracing her own "you-ness"—which I call talent, and which is best expressed in voice. Which

Instead, I'd signed up for classes related to linguistic philosophy, for which I had even less talent. In Walt's own seminar, we were reading neo-Kantian Ernst Cassirer—a brick I broke my brain on.

I cherish two sentences and keep them close to my desk. The first is by Flaubert. I came upon it among Van Gough's letters. It says, simply, 'Talent is long patience, and originality an effort of will and of intense observation.