Quotes About Talent

Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.

Korsakov got himself shot again, eh? Not surprised. the man's hobby is getting shot. He has a positive talent for it.

A collection of talented individuals without personal discipline will ultimately and inevitably fail. Character triumphs over talent.

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

When an artist captures a mountain or an ocean on a canvas with color and we wonder where such talent could come from, he or she is declaring His glory.

Talent in itself meant little; having the right people to appreciate it was everything.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

It does take a special something. Whatever that 'something' is, I'm reliably told I have it in spades..." -Rodimus

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work And tools to work withal, for those who will....

Nature fits all her children with something to do,He who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

And clearly, you have the skills. If you're interested, Task Force 29 is always hiring.

Early on, Abraham revealed a keystone attribute essential to success in any field—the motivation and willpower to develop every talent he possessed to the fullest.

It was not a question of Philip's having lost hold. He had never grasped hold. Something had not happened that should have happened: a teacher, or someone, should have said: This one, Philip Fowler, he must be a craftsman, do something small, and delicate and intricate; we must get him trained for that. Look how perfectly he does things! He can't fold a shirt or arrange some chips and a piece of fish on a plate without making a picture of it. It had not happened.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you're a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.

You are a mathematician,' John Dee said. 'I am a musician,' said Lymond.

Do you swim? Hunt? Wrestle? I see. Can you use a crossbow? Your longest shot? Can you count? Read and write? Ah, the sting of sarcasm—Have we a scholar here? Then produce us a specimen," said Lymond. "What about some modest quatrains? Frae vulgar prose to flowand Latin. Deafen us, enchant us, educate us, boy.

Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you're a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency." Kate

She ought to be at home in Flaw Valleys, doing her morning exercise on the lute, at which, said her teacher, she would have had a distinguished future, had she not been born English.

Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you're a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.

I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.