Quotes About Talent

Those born dull remain dull

argue, you're better off pursuing a profession that comes easily and that you love, because that's where you'll be more eager to practice and thereby earn a competitive advantage. I love writing

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.

What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.

A man becomes a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier

El genio lo da Dios, pero el talento es cosa nuestra; con una inteligencia recta, amor a lo que se hace y una paciencia sin desfallecimientos, se llega a tenerlo

Clarinette. En jouer rend aveugle. Ex. : Tous les aveugles jouent de la clarinette.

Les vraies femmes de lettres sont des phénomènes. Leur rareté fait leur prix.

Hiring better than yourself means that you hire for strengths as opposed to hiring on the basis of the lack of weaknesses. A great leader hires people for their strengths and then assigns them tasks that take advantage of those strengths.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

If there is such a thing as sin, then it is a sin not to be able to play a musical instrument.

I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style. I wanted to wake up with them all transferred to me.

That's where the public like their artists—exposed, trousers down, arse up, doing a long stretch among serial killers, and shitting in front of strangers. That'll teach 'em to think their talent makes them better than mediocre no-brain tax-paying wage slaves like us.

Talent might be a gift but it still has to be cultivated. The imagination is like a fire or furnace: it has to be stoked, fed and attended to. One thing sets another ablaze. Keep it going.

If I weren't white and middle class I'd have been in Pyke's show now. Obviously mere talent gets you nowhere these days. Only the disadvantaged are going to succeed in seventies' England

Having a talent isn't worth much unless you know what to do with it.

Si puedes dibujar y pintar- pensó el niño-, entonces tienes el mundo en tus manos

I don't know if I believe in talent. People keep saying to me, 'Oh he's really talented,' or this woman is an 'amazing talent.' And then when I investigate a little bit further, it turns out it's just somebody who works really, really hard.

I might be good at what I do, but despite the fact that King's Cross station is indeed where Harry Potter headed off for Hogwarts, I do not possess an invisibility cloak.

To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at 'SNL' is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy.

I get asked a lot about players like Lionel Messi and Neymar and people seem to have the idea that they don't do any work because they have a God-given talent. That is just not true, they work all the time, they are totally dedicated and that's why they are where they are.