Quotes About Talent

You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.

I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?

Faith in our own talent is the gravity, the force that keeps us in orbit around the potential of our own passions and ideas, even when we are temporarily marooned on the dark side of the moon.

There really has been only one thing in my life that has made me feel complete, and that is the game of football. The ability to throw a football was my God-given talent. That was my blessing and my passion; that was my calling in life, and everything that I've accomplished has derived from that.

The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer, I'm a song stylist.

I know you know the tale of Baby June You know the way she could deliver a tune She was a killer in a petticoat A little bit of everyone you adore... And if your baby let you down at night, Well Baby June would make it up alright And I was never happier Than in the arms and charms of her

Have talent, work hard, get lucky!

What allowed a person sitting in front of this strange giant to call forth beautiful sounds just by moving his fingers up and down?

The logic of an arms race came to rule in art: and legions of untalented hacks who came after Miró devoted themselves to thinking about what had never been done before rather than about what they wanted to express.

A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

All human beings must perform according to their nature.

Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent.

"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Fame is no sure test of merit.