Talent Quotes - page 53

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness. (Susan Cain)
I was never really affected by it because I don't have the time to go up to every grime kid and explain the ideology and the lifestyle. It's too hard.... Look at Afrikan Boy, he still has that problem. You have this talent to see something and articulate something new, but you can't because the arena to do that doesn't exist. It's easier to breed movements in England than really support one artist, especially in urban culture. View quote
M.I.A.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. View quote
Seneca
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit. View quote
Seneca
I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. View quote
Joni Mitchell
At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. View quote
Joseph Addison
This minister is, as you know, the idol of the people, who regard him as the sole author of their success, and they do not have the same confidence in the other members of the council...Pitt joins to a reputation of superior spirit and talent, that of most exact honesty...with simple manners and dignity, he seeks neither display nor ostentation...He is very eloquent, specious, wheedling, and with all the chicanery of an experienced lawyer. He is courageous to the point of rashness, he supports his ideas in an impassioned fashion and with an invincible determination, seeking to have no other ambition than to elevate Britain to the highest point of glory and to abase France to the lowest degree of humiliation. View quote
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
If it is not the worst film I have ever seen, that makes it all the more shameful: People with talent allowed themselves to participate in this travesty. View quote
Roger Ebert
Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business. View quote
Steven Pinker
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students. View quote
Burt Bacharach
But tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation. (John Dryden)
My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent. View quote
Pat Metheny
I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either. View quote
Carrie Underwood
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper. View quote
Ian Anderson (musician)
I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool. View quote
Josh Groban
Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console. View quote
Rick Astley
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent. View quote
André Maurois
My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.' View quote
Ken Venturi
I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent. View quote
Edie Falco
I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different. (Viola Davis)
I respect her talent and her brain and who she is as a person - and that kind of admiration and respect is a big factor in binding someone in a relationship. View quote
Lily Tomlin
My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success. View quote
Grace Slick
I hope I have a little talent, but a lot of it was luck. I went through setbacks. People said I looked too young, people said I wasn't good, nobody said, 'Come here, baby, we're going to make you a star.' Early on, when I'd say, 'Can I do some anchoring' people would look at me like I was crazy. View quote
Katie Couric
When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions. View quote
Nora Roberts