Talent Quotes - Page 6

• If a person really believes they need some kind of special inherited talent or proper-sided brain functioning, this will interfere with their productivity. I don't want to know what side of the brain I am using.

  Jim Rowe

  Believe, Brain, Special

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• I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Singers, Crystals, Trios

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• I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

  Jackson Pollock

  Long, Study, Accomplished

  Jackson Pollock (2011). “American Letters: 1927-1947”, p.16, Polity

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• Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Mean, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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• The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.

  Eric Hoffer

  Missing, Creative, Way

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Wish, Use

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• My will exceeds my talents.

  Edvard Munch

  Exceed

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• We all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our talents to creating weapons of annihilation, as so many scientists have done, or we can work to find solutions to humanities greatest problems. Our orientation is found not only in our acts, but also in the policies we support or oppose.

  David Krieger

  Wall, Bridges, Creating

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• Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

  Dan Marino

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

  Jean Anouilh

  Writing

  Jean Anouilh (1960). “Becket or the Honor of God”

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• My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

  Peter Paul Rubens

  Courage, Size, Undertakings

  Peter Paul Rubens, Toledo Museum of Art (1991). “The Crowning of Saint Catherine: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577-1640”

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• If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

  William Feather

  Jobs, Men, Typewriters

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• A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.

  Joseph Addison

  Strong, Men, Sight

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.130

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• It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Men, United, Unfortunate

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• One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

  William Matthews

  Law, Energy, Attention

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• I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Cursed

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• Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Law, Church

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724”, p.332

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• If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Husband, Nice, Caring

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• A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that happens, but I'm sure it has an inner basis that is never learned.

  Isaac Stern

  Attention, Ears, Demand

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• Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

  Frederic Henry Hedge

  Genius, Faculty, Command

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• Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Needs, Soil, Seeds

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• The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

  Frederick William Faber

  Rocks, Buried, Strikes

  Frederick William Faber (1866). “Notes on doctrinal and spiritual subjects”, p.343

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• One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Practice, Benefits, Violin

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• In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

  Willa Cather

  People, World, Pay

  Willa Cather (1992). “Stories, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Sticks, Insight, Ifs

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