Quotes About Talent

the Muse favors working stiffs. She hates prima donnas.

If we were born to paint, it's our job to become a painter.

When inspiration touches talent, she gives birth to truth and beauty. And when Steven Pressfield was writing The War of Art, she had her hands all over him.

Ellos tienen riquezas pero pierden la habilidad de disfrutarla, todo porque no saben que la clave para la vida es conocer al Señor y vivir a su manera. Esto significa dar tiempo, energía, amor, talento y finanzas de acuerdo a sus instrucciones.

The world is full of talented people.

I knew that there was a largeness in you. I knew you possessed a generosity of abilities that comes only rarely into the world.

No," I said, too quickly. I had an outstanding talent for committing deceit, but none for hiding it.

Confucius said, "People may have the finest talents, but if they are arrogant and stingy, their other qualities are not worthy of consideration.

Any great gift or power or talent is a burden, and this more than any, and you will often long to be free of it. But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law.

As he spoke, Miss Frumkin looked at her chart, which was directly in front of Dr. Sun, facing him. Reading upside down is one of Miss Frumkin's talents. It has enabled her, over the years, to read many things not intended for her eyes.

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

The last achievement of the serious admirer is to stop immediately putting to work the energies aroused by, filling up the space opened by, what is admired. Thereby talented admirers give themselves permission to breathe, to breathe more deeply. But for that it is necessary to go beyond avidity; to identify with something beyond achievement, beyond the gathering of power.

I hated when people said I was talented. At this point I would have much preferred they told me that I sucked, that I should give it up, go back to school, find a new career.

My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.

Write your passion and somebody will pay you for it.

Cat Ellington is the Bo Jackson of the creative arts. Everything she does, she does extremely well. And I'm proud of her. I'm proud to say that a woman as beautiful and gifted as she is has a solid place in both my personal and professional lives.

When he played the guitar, the music was in his head and in his heart.

same mould as Ruth Blake! God-given

You have the most priceless of all attributes for your job, and that is flair. But don't let it ride you, Grant. Don't let your imagination take hold. Keep it your servant.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

If you put A players on a team with C players, your A players are going to play down. It rarely works the other way, where the C players play up.

can I help it if I'm a better assassin than I am a housewife?

There is a talent in finding the right information at the right time, a happiness in pleasing someone else. Love is the best teacher in this journey. It is simple: you take the initiative and throw the dice. /The Invitation

How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves?