Quotes About Talent

When a man is commonplace in discussion yet valued for what he writes that shows that his talents lie in his borrowed sources not in himself.

No one plays the silent flute better than she does!

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Zuaika hebat, tapi ia tak sehebat itu. Tak seorangpun sehebat itu.

Good hiring practices are the backbone of strong company performance.

It seems to me we do ourselves a disservice when we over-praise a talent. It feels good to praise and idealize, but then we risk making art inaccessible to those who aspire.

Every artist who drew Batman after creator Bob Kane was a better artist than Kane [...].

We mustn't be envious, comrades. There's twenty-two dachas4 in all, and only seven more being built, and there's three thousand of us in Massolit.' 'Three thousand one hundred and eleven,' someone put in from the corner. 'So you see,' the Bos'n went on, 'what can be done? Naturally, it's the most talented of us that got the dachas . . .

Un medico è una persona che accetta, per tutta la vita e con tutte le conseguenze, di occuparsi del corpo umano. E' questo consenso fondamentale (e non certo il talento o l'abilità) che gli permette il primo anno di università di entrare nella sala di anatomia e sei anni dopo di diventare medico.

Todo el mundo se siente feliz cuando se puede manifestar en su especialidad y jactarse de ello.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

I remember one time - it might have been a couple times - at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening for this sorry-ass cat named Steve Miller. Steve Miller didn't have his shit going for him, so I'm pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherfucker just because he had one or two sorry-ass records out. So I would come late and he would have to go on first and then we got there we smoked the motherfucking place, everybody dug it.

He was half of something. A strong, beautiful, talented half of something that was, perhaps, even stronger, greater and more beautiful than he. He was, then, the magical half of something magnificent and unfathomable. She was a complete whole. A small, disoriented, not very strong or harmonius whole, but a whole all the same.

I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.

When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.

You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why you're here

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

I absolutely love Nicole Scherzinger. She's worked really hard to get to where she is and really knows her stuff.

From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I'm still doing it. I still love it so that's why I do it.

I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.