Quotes about Talent

Kristin Wiig I think is brilliant.

I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him

Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is health of every man.

It takes brains not to make money," Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem's signature. "Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money.

The problem comes when we try to take the gift God has given us and use it to do what someone else is doing instead of developing our own potential.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.