Quotes About Talent

Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

If you beat somebody at the thing they're best at, they're more likely to give way.

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." (I

If you're not really into something, you don't put the time in, so you don't get good at it. Passion is the key to everyone's gifts.

glassblowing?" Noah shook his head. "My

That's the way it has to be. If you're not really into something, you don't put the time in, so you don't get good at it. Passion is the key to everyone's gifts.

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child. (on Liszt)

Há um livro em cada um de nós", dizem. E talvez daí eu tenha querido expulsar de mim um livro que eu escreveria se para isso talento eu tivesse, e mais a perseverança.

The room was the opposite of what I'd created in my home, the opposite of the soft beauty I'd made from my talent for arrangement, my talent for living, the opposite of my serene irony, of my sweet and absentminded irony: it was a violation of my quotation marks, the quotation marks that made me a citation of myself. The room was the portrait of an empty stomach.

Para ter o que eu tinha eu nunca precisara nem de dor nem de talento. O que eu tinha não me era conquista, era dom.

To play the violin it is necessary to possess certain habits, skills, knowledge, and talents, to be in the mood to play, and (as the old joke goes) to have a violin. But violin playing is neither the habits, skills, knowledge and so on, nor the mood, nor . . . the violin.

You are a poet in your own right. Just free your mind and unleash the goodness in your heart to prove the hallmark of human talent and purpose.

Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

When absolute power is on offer, talent fights to get in.

Nijinsky got all his master classes over in a single line of explanation.

Artistic talent is indeed a gift from God, which the artist is obliged to match with the gift of his life.

Many attempt without success to make up for their lack of talent with defects of character.