Quotes About Talent

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical; it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.

Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.

In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

A Prussian officer was expected to share a set of core values, defining his "honor," which took precedence over an order. If he acted in accordance with honor – or, as we might more commonly say today, with integrity – disobedience was legitimate. The right talent and the right behavioral biases were put in place as a first step.

Hesitancy is the surest destroyer of talent. One cannot be timorous and reticent, one must be original and loud. New metaphors, new rhythms, new expressions of emotion can only spring from unhindered gall. Nothing should interfere with that intuition--not the fear of appearing stupid, nor of offending somebody, nor jeopardizing publication, nor being trivial. The intuition must be as unhindered as a karate chop.

Talent isn't enough. Determination, ambition, energy and gall are also needed, as well as the need to have one's ego serve the writing and not the reverse.

Some games, you are Reggie Miller. And, if you're really good, you're maybe even Cheryl.

You have a talent, something you are especially good at, something you can do better than anyone else. It's called your Dharma. At a deep level, you know what it is because it's buried in your subconscious mind. It's a piece of your soul. Putting your Dharma to work in service to others is your purpose. That's your path to bliss. You can begin to determine what it is by answering this question: What have I done that puts me so totally in the zone

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and seeatshops

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they're speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

i want to be a singer

talent without discipline is only an empty promise—the glitter of an unworked crystal. It is nothing of itself.

If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it.