Quotes About Talent

I'm boasting of my...skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.

He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.

The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade school. Rebecca had some drawing talent, you could tell, but Simon's sketches of people all looked like parking meters with tufts of hair.

Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary.

You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.

Men and women in the creative arts should be free to express themselves, creatively, without interference from those who are without honor where having talent is concerned.

Songwriters are the salt of the Earth.

Songwriting cannot be taught; it is a God-given gift from the womb.

The first thing I look for, in addition to a performer's range, is a performer's look in comparison to the character. That is very important to me as a casting director.

Empower yourself and realize the importance of contributing to the world by living your talent. Work on what you love. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Unique Ability is the essence of what you love to do and do best. There are four characteristics of Unique Ability: It's a superior ability that other people notice and value; you are passionate about using it and want to use it as much as possible; it's energizing both for you and others around you; and there's a sense of never-ending improvement—you keep getting better and better and never run out of possibilities for growth.

Many people have so much more potential than where they are right now.

Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work.

But it made him feel ashamed to say it, because it wasn't entirely true. He felt it shouldn't have mattered. But it did. He had wanted everyone to see his talented hen. He had wanted to fill to bursting with pride while everyone watched.

The hard work is the lion's share of the battle. Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work.

Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they must without even truly knowing why. I felt a hole in my heart shaped like a dark door I needed to guard.

I reckon he's jealous, because he can see you have more talent than he's got in his little finger.

I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.

At no time did anyone throw his cap in the air and rejoice that another painter, capable of equaling Hals at his best, had been discovered.

Disse che mi avrebbe preso nove. In teoria la soluzione in un tempo così breve avrebbe meritato il massimo, aggiunse, però se mi avesse messo dieci avrebbe dato per implicito che non c'era nulla da migliorare e avrebbe contribuito a farmi sprecare il mio talento.

He merely added that often you don't do what you would have liked to do in life, but that what you'd like to do isn't necessarily what you would be good at doing. Which, needless to say, is true.

Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana. '

I am writing like an angel

If he had been able to, Barbaja would have put me in charge of the kitchen as well' (Rossini on his impresario