Quotes About Talent

I'd love to do something with Kelly Clarkson because she's been a monumental influence on me. I love how she handles her celebrity. She's not in the tabloids a lot but everyone knows and respects her because she's got an amazing voice. That's something I aim towards.

Pelé, otro genio con unas condiciones extraordinarias. Era derecho, pero hacía cosas con la pierna izquierda, paraba la pelota como si tuviera un muelle en en el pecho, cabeceaba como si tuviera un martillo en la cabeza, regateaba para los dos perfiles, tiraba de media distancia era estratega, era goleador, un jugador completísimo.

Hoy la ciencia ya ha demostrado que «el hábito es la gran herramienta de la memoria y, por lo tanto, también del talento, que es su criatura» (José Antonio Marina dixit).

El talento tiene la capacidad de transformar un problema natural en una virtud que te diferencia de los demás.

el talento es únicamente un buen punto de partida.

En effet, lorsque l'époque où un homme de talent est obligé de vivre est plate et bête, l'artiste est, à son insu même, hanté par la nostalgie d'un autre siècle.

In fact, when the period in which a man of talent is obliged to live is dull and stupid, the artist, though unconsciously, is haunted by a nostalgia of some past century.

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En qué código, en qué escritura, en qué ciencia había aprendido yo que los prejuicios priman sobre las realidades? ¿Por qué era mejor que otros, sino por mis obras? El hombre de talento debe ser como la muerte, que no reconoce categorías. […] Usted sólo tiene un problema sumo, a cuya lado huelgan todos los otros: adquirir dinero para sustentar la modestia decorosamente. El resto viene por añadidura.

Es más contagiosa la mediocridad que el talento.

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all." -Dr. Jose Rizal

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glaring as they would be without it.

It is odd to consider what great geniuses are sometimes thrown away upon trifles.

It's an abominable fallacy that suffering makes for greater art. Suffering blinds, deafens, ruins, and often kills. Osip Mandelstam was a great poet before the revolution. So was Anna Akhmatova, so was Marina Tsvetaeva. They would have become what they became even if none of the historical events that befell Russia in this century had taken place: because they were gifted . Basically, talent doesn't need history.

B]lood is the manure of the plant that we call genius.

Refuse to honour the genius who has abused his gifts.

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says ' Poeta nascitur non fit ' the translation of which is— the poet is born, not made.

Shakespeare used the word 'flush' to indicate plenty of money. Well, just remember there was only one Shakespeare , and he was the only one that had a right to use that word in that sense . You'll never be a Shakespeare , there will never be such another— Nature exhausted herself in producing him.

What seems clear to me,' Karl Wertheimer joined in, 'is that Eli Black believes in the myth of the artist. This is a myth that holds that everything must be sacrificed for art. It may not be a foolish myth if one is, say, Michelangelo or Beethoven. But if one is less than that then the myth of the artist is very destructive, sadly so for people who become too closely involved with him.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.