Quotes About Talent

In India, the eldest has the most responsibility and the crown goes to him. The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could 'most talent' be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

Being from a middle-class Indian family, I learned Carnatic music.

The advantage comes out of the capability of Indian engineers and the competitiveness of their capabilities and the cost at which they can create those capabilities.

As far as Indian artists are concerned, I really like Mohammad Rafi and Sonu Nigam.

Orson Welles used to say that Italy was full of actors—fifty million of them—almost all good. He claimed the few bad ones were on the stage, or the cinema screen.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

Actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

I understood Truman Capote's brilliant assessment of the writer's dilemma: "When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip.

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge

Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.

Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let's face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their connotation of "the starving artist" and the mistaken concept of necessary talent

The one behavior that talented people seldom tolerate for long is disrespect.

Humoresque' by Alexander de Taeye. Ever

My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be.

These are the prerogatives of genius: To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.

A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.

talented but only a 6 or 7 out of 10, and we both know that the world only gives golden medals to the 9's and 10's

It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they do but you usually get the measure of what they are about on their first outing.

for every Aretha, there's a chorus of cat-stranglers.