Quotes of: Talented-people Keyword

...you can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?...

A Familiar Rain

My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be

Finding Home: A Creative Journey on a Trip Around the World

...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

You see Boris Becker, Mats Wilander, Nadal, Pete Sampras - they were all great when they were young. As a coach, you can see that type of talent at an early age.

Brad Gilbert

Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to get the benefit of my inestimable talents.

Glen Duncan

If I were an actress today at the age of 18, I would never make it, because now our young actresses all seem to be very beautiful and very talented right away.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.

Madeleine M. Kunin

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

Robin S. Sharma

The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.

Sarah Paulson

I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.

Kristen Stewart

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

Jacqueline Bisset

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

John Dyer

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

Richard Price

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

1Q84

Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.

The Interestings

Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.

The Salinger Contract

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Sex & character

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?

Mort

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

The October Country

Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.

LIFE

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

Little Women