Quotes About Talent

I believe a great many people are born writer or artist, and die without ever realizing it. Books go unwritten, paintings unpainted. The fortunate ones are those who discover what they were meant to do. I might have been an excellent soccer player. I might have been an excellent writer. If I'd tried to do both, I'd have been no more than mediocre. I chose not to be mediocre.

She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale. So she read instead, and admired those who could.

profession." "Art

good a writer." "I'm not bad, but you're right, book form isn't my strength. I'll hire a ghost this time.

Not everyone who loves music can play the tune. Estelle

But when you're naturally better than everyone else, and when that talent is so utterly obvious, being quiet doesn't translate as humble. It translates as boredom.

His talent was appearing to understand obvious realities that other people could not see, expressed with the kind of self-assurance that can only come from extreme wealth.

It's hard for Americans to differentiate between talent and notoriety; TV confuses people.

The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don't recognize as real.

She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

Ig­nore how it feels when the on­ly re­al tal­ent you have is for hid­ing the truth.

Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hidding the truth. You have a God-given knack for commiting a terrible sin. It's your calling. You have a natural gift for denial. A blessing.

Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hiding the truth.

Anytime some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.

Flattery is addictive. Convince others they are special. Assure them they have talent. Make yourself the source of people's self worth. Doing so binds them to you and it preempts them from developing their skills and proving their true potential.

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

The problem with being talented and gifted is sometimes you get too smart. My uncle Henry says the importance of eating a good breakfast is because your brain is still growing. But nobody talks about how, sometimes, your brain can get just too big.

La repetición es la madre de todos los talentos.

Flattery is addictive. Convince others they're special. Assure them they have talent. Make yourself the source of people's self-worth. Doing so binds them to you and it preempts them from developing their skills and proving their true potential.

She says, We're all some kind of genius. Just, she says, some of us in other ways.

God created creativity! That might sound unusual to you, but it's true: God is the master artist, and all creative talent and inspiration flows from Him.

Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.

The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That's a dangerous way to build a strategy.

The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward.