Quotes About Talent

Mediocrity is the standard rather than the exception among practicing artists (Sturgeon's rule: 90 percent of everything is shit)

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who's the artist.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

Gather up your loins, daughter. You named Lillian Florence Jones after my mother. A toughter lady never lived. Find your talent and drive it.

You don't have to seek anyone else's approval for the life God has given you to live. You don't have to apologize for the strength, fortitude, courage, talent, beauty, or intellect your Creator has given you. Ladies, we all are "God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do" (Ephesians 2:10).

Give me the fingers of Mozart, and there is no musical piece I cannot play. Give me the mind of Einstein, and there is no mathematical formula I cannot unravel. Give me the arms of Hank Aaron, and there is no home run I cannot hit. Give me the life of Jesus Christ, and there is no victory I cannot achieve.

So the avenues we walk down, full of bodies wearing faces, are full of hidden talent: enough to make pianos moan, sidewalks split, streetlights deliriously flicker.

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

You are not making art, but art is being revealed through you.

It's the most talented, not the least talented, who are continually trying to improve their dialogue skills. As is often the case, the rich get richer.

No tendrás un cepillo para el pelo? Es que canto mejor cuando tengo uno en la mano. Gideon parecía un poco desesperado.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

I don't have the best body in the world, but I know for a fact that I have a really good voice.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

I've come across otherwise smart people who are of the mistaken belief that if they hold on to a task, something only they know how to do, it'll ensure job security. These people are knowledge hoarders. This doesn't work. Everyone is replaceable. No matter how talented they are. Sure it may take longer at first to find out how to do that special task, but it will happen without them.

Psychopaths, rather than having an impairment in recognizing the emotions of others, indeed have a talent for it. And that the problem lies not in emotional recognition per se, but in the dissociation between its sensory and affective components: in the disconnect between knowing what an emotion is and feeling what it's like.

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

How many geniuses at the level of Bach and Van Gogh died before the needed technologies were available for their talents to take root?

It's possible that a not-so-smart person who can communicate well can do much better than a super-smart person who can't communicate well.That is good news because it is much easier to improve your communication skills than your intelligence.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.