I’d rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

Talent speaks for itself. But I’m going to try to be the best I can. If I make the All-Star team this year, I make it. If I don’t, I don’t. … But I am...

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Write. Don’t talk about writing. Don’t tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don’t give me a bunch of ‘somedays’. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it...

There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or...

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.

We try to put them in situations where they can take their talent and maximize it. We try to get them out of their comfort zone, playing against older, bigger players, so they have to...

We feel like we’ve got enough talent at the position that it’s possible that we wouldn’t designate starters.

Another thing that’s pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

There is a lot of talent here, a lot of talent.

We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.

This man has talent, that man geniusAnd here’s the strange and cruel difference:Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.

There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don’t achieve what I’ve achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just...

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.

If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short,...

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

It don’t matter about all that anyway,” Armstrong added. “You think it do, but it don’t. A man ain’t just his one talent. Lil Louis needs you. And Jones look to you like you his...

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I’m optimistic.

Hugh consoled me, saying, “Don’t let it get to you. There are plenty of things you’re good at.”When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come...

In all four years of high school, not once did I make the football team. The other part of the story is that I never even tried out. Just raw talent, I guess.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically he studied the scores of the great masters. At the end of the...

Greatness is finding your natural talent, fueling it with passion, planting it in well-nourished soil, and toiling in the garden until it breaks through the earth and reaches for the stars.

If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and...

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

What about his style?” asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted.”Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks she is a novelist, who am...

The Blackhawks had the best offer. They have some young talent. I’ve won the Stanley Cup and I want to do it again.

If you love something, you find a way to have it in your life. Opposers may take away your means and tools, but you simply turn to crude replacements, fashioning them from scraps if necessary....

I think he is a long-term name. He is a very big talent.

inquisitiveness” with cross-cultural sharing through technology and inner insights.

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It’s not really anything; it’s just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed...

That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don’t know something are no...

A person’s willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards,

I know how you feel. But people can’t surpass their true design. Our talents, our gifts. All programmed into us from the start. I know this because since birth… I was made to destroy.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

Mr Humphry Davy is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist…

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

There’s a genius in everyone. It’s either asleep or awake

Take 5″ is the practice if spending 5 minutes a day giving focused attention to your hopes for your talent.

Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us… but they’re still fucking psychopaths.

I think that they’ve just got some talent going to Lenoir-Rhyne from this area. And to be coming from South Central really means a lot to us. I think that with the young coaches teaching...

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.