I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.
It takes sacrifice as well as talent.
What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.
Great churches aren't built on the gifts or talents of a few, but on the sacrifice of many.
I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.
Keep your character several steps ahead of your talent
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.
I want people to consider talent without a last name or a race attached to it. I knew it would be a long path but also worth the struggle. That's when I got my confidence and when I started to figure out what beauty is.
Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.
The remarkable thing about Hitler was his talent for dissimulation. His formidable abilities as an actor are often overlooked. There are only very rarely situations where we can say he was being genuine.
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability. . . talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.
Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.
I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance.
From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.
The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.
I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.