Quotes About Talent

Accusing your own mother of adultery to save your skin is creativity of a kind so special it can almost be called a talent.

Hitler wouldn't have needed to find someone else. Someone else would have found him. When absolute power is on offer, talent fights to get in.

Es horrible pensar, como me pasa cada vez que empiezo un libro, que ya no tengo, que nunca he tenido talento alguno.

Gdybym istotnie przy tej jaÅ'owi?nie, przy tej niemocy czynu, posiadaÅ' nawet genialne zdolnoÅ›ci, to byÅ'bym jakimÅ› szczególnym rodzajem geniusza bez teki.

The creative talent belongs to the outsider, and to be an outsider is the artist's fate.

We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

During their lessons, Lorimer often reminded his student that his remarkable talent with the scalpel would amount to nothing if the knife was not held by a loving hand guided by a truth-seeking eye. The study of nature is a barren enterprise if stones, plants, and animals become frozen under the magnifying glass, Lorimer said. A naturalist should look at the world with warm affection, if not ardent love.

Por eso –me decía medio gritando– el dinero no dice nada de la gente que lo tiene. Nada. El dinero no dice nada de sus dueños. A diferencia de tener, no sé, talento, que sí define a una persona. La relación del dinero con el individuo es completamente accidental.

It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.

He had a marvelously versatile gift for forgetting things.

The English will never be forgiven for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get off their own island.

Derek turned out to be spectacularly good at fixing cars, and he cured the Casson one almost immediately with the simple but highly effective addition of gasoline.

There are people who have no talent for happiness and who know this with painful, implacable clarity. Such people don't seek happiness, merely to bring some sort of form and style to their unhappiness.

You have only seen the least of what I can do.

Playing the villain was the only thing he'd ever really excelled at.

Someone's really sold you a bill of goods. Plenty of mortals are better at plenty of stuff than the Folk. Why do you think we steal them away?

Each of you will have a chance to play it, and whosoever plays most sweetly, you will have it. For art is more than virtue or vice.

You have a skill. You can do something no one else can," Barron says. "Seriously. You know what's good about that? It's valuable. As in you can trade it for goods or services. Or money. Remember when I said it was wasted on you? I was so right.

Charlie Hall, at her best when doing her worst. Whenever she tried to create something, it broke apart in her hands. But blow something up? There, Charlie had an unerring instinct for greatness.

You've only seen the least of what I can do.

There are two ways for mortals to become permanent subjects of the Court: marrying into it or honing some great skill—in metallurgy or lute playing or whatever. Not interested in the first, I have to hope I can be talented enough for the second.

Some are good with pipes or paint. Some have skill in love. My talent is in making war. The only thing that has ever kept me awake was denying it

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.