Quotes About Talent

He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match,

Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match, but some people, just as gifted as others, are less lucky. Fate never drops a match on them. The times are wrong, or their health is poor, or their energy low, or their obligations too many. Something.

And though creative writing as an intellectual exercise may be pursued with profit by anyone, writing as a profession is not a job for amateurs, dilettantes, part-time thinkers, 25-watt feelers, the lazy, the insensitive, or the imitative. It is for the creative, and creativity implies both talent and hard work.

Talent...is at least half luck...We are lucky in our parents, teachers, experience, circumstances, friends, times, physical and mental endowment, or we are not.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

How deep is your game?

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

Lucky Cowboy and his clean hands. By chance you had a talent somebody wanted, and now you're able to afford principles. Good for you.

Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.

I never trained, however, because I was a spontaneous talent. Practising spoiled my style.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them

Tom Petty," Jim Lenahan insists, "is really good at getting people to quit school and join his band. He got Benmont to do it. He got me to do it. He got Mike to do it. He got a lot of people to quit college so they could be in his band.

They were kids. But the ones who could play would often mix with an older crowd. There was no distinction between varsity and junior varsity—strict divisions that applied elsewhere often didn't in the world of local bands.

The love of gain never made a Painter; but it has marred many.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

La intuición con la que nace el artistas es el talento evangélico que no debe enterrar. El artista que no utiliza sus dotes es un esclavo perezoso.