When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things. - Felix Dennis
If this man can express himself with the soul and the willpower that he has, even in singing, he certainly will be a big star. - Luciano Pavarotti
Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I'm producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.' - George R. R. Martin
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.
The beauty in being blessed with talent is rising above doubters to create a beautiful moment. - Kobe Bryant
But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.
Miserere ... You know I don't want to be a talent scout, but sometimes when I find someone very talented and very unique and different, if it's possible to give him a chance, why not? I'm very happy and very proud to find someone young -- a great musician or singer that I can write a song for and help him in a way. - Luciano Pavarotti
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy. - Weird Al Yankovic
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there? - Whitney Houston
I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it. - George Clooney
Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop. 99% of what you need to succeed in golf are skills - Tiger Woods
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
