Quotes About Talent

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.