Quotes About Talent

If you have your own kind of power, show your hand. Make the man fear you in you own field. For example, you can write. Your rich man cannot do that. It is quite all right to exercise your own power. Have faith in yourself.

Daniel Radcliffe

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

First character, then ability.

As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.

he does, there are ways to camouflage many imperfections so that they don't stand out like a sore thumb. A talented groomer probably can make an average Poodle look much finer than a near-perfect Poodle trimmed by an amateurish groomer.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

When I looked at the white people who were doing this, consciously or not, it made me angry because so many of them were baser, less intelligent, less talented than the people they were lording it over. But the whites were in control. We could do nothing about it. We had no power. That was the way society was. I perceived that this was the way it was meant to be: things were organized to keep those who were on top up there. The country was racist all the way through.

My Chicken can do a special trick! "And what is that?" She can lay an egg! "And what's so special about THAT?!" Well, Can YOU lay an egg?

Shirley Temple Black

As a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired him to draw some cartoons. Disney was working out of a small rodent-infested shed near the church. Seeing a small mouse inspired him to draw a new cartoon. That was the start of Mickey Mouse.

Once when the great violinist Fritz Kreisler finished a concert, someone came up to the stage and said, "I'd give my life to play the way you do." Kreisler replied, "I did!

Sid Hite makes the greatest books

Talent is like a stream....when pertinently channelised it can beget the unimaginable , however when unguided ,it can lead to a catastrophe

It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

You are the gift that only you would have to give.

Sit in these auditions for three weeks and hear "I Believe I Can Fly" out of tune for the millionth time, YOU try and be nice

It's sad to say, but it is much easier selling, for example, a crap Brazilian than a brilliant Mexican. The Brazilian gets across the image of happiness, party, carnival. Irrespective of talent, it is very seductive to have a Brazilian in your team.

it is only a very rare artist that is as good as his art.

it is only n very rare artist that is as good as his art.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.