Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.
I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.
Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!
Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.
I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and anti-Semitism.
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth. . . . Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.
Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined that a reader can jump right in. Betsy Cornwell is a terrific new talent with a boundless imagination.
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
Executives are afraid of losing control if subordinates try to roam too far. Conversely, hierarchy squelches talent by forcing rote standardization through the punishment of failure, a necessary accompaniment to experimentation.
Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.
Talent imitates, but genius steals.
I don't think that we're limiting talent. I think if I could reverse the clock a little bit, there would have been more kind coverage among female journalists for what I was doing.
Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. Don't ever forget that. You're a damn good writer, but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description.
I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.
I don't pay attention to things like the talent for style. I don't meditate on things like that. I just do whatever I think I should do and go with it, and if people like it, then I'm very happy about it. And if not, I always figure it's their problem not mine.
The big talent is persistence.
If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.
In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.
I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice. ' I'm a coach. I'm there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent.
What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.