Great Talent Quotes - Page 4

• I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

  Alban Berg

  Music, Independence, Proud

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• We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

  Rick Wright

  Music, Song, Giving

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• Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.

  Jack Kirby

  Talent, Dedicated

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• There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Quality, Bad Qualities, Talent

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• Great offices will have great talents.

  William Cowper

  Greatness, Office, Talent

  William Cowper, John Corry (1820). “The Beauties of Cowper; Or, Extracts ... for the Use of Schools ... By John Corry”, p.13

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• Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.

  David A. Siegel

  Stories, Actresses, April

  Source: collider.com

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• America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.

  Karen Russell

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating.

  Stephen Curry

  Awards, Mvp, Nba Championships

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• Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Delight, World

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.317

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• We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Heart, Contentment, Talent

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• To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Men, Hands

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.243, Xist Publishing

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• Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

  Dave Ramsey

  Team, Lines, Legends

  Dave Ramsey (2011). “EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• Children's lies are signs of great talent.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Lying, Talent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics.

  Volker Ullrich

  Artist, Average, Games

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• The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Effort, Use, Talent

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• Desmond Mason is one of my best friends in the world. And he's a great, great talent.

  Michael Redd

  My Best Friend, World, Talent

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• Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

  Alan Alda

  School, Exercise, Keys

  "An Interview with TV Legend Alan Alda". "Pop Culture Passionistas" Interview, www.popculturepassionistasarchive.com. December 9, 2010.

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• To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.

  Benjamin West

  Dreamer, Talent

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• Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Art, Sorrow, Spirit

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• Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

  Truman Capote

  Creativity, People, Genius

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

  Joseph Addison

  Humility, Pride, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.301

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• I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot of ways - they've got a lot of great talent, but at the same time, they don't nurture it. They lost 'Project Runway.'

  Patti Stanger

  Lucky, Way, Talent

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• I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

  Elaine Stritch

  Acting, Talent, Because I Can

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• Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.

  Laura Kasischke

  Struggle, Writing, Thinking

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• I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.

  Tracy Anderson

  School, Dancer, Body

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