Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.
There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.
Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.
[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.
Despite their tremendous talent, (NBA players) are still, by and large, young adults, seeking validation from an authority figure, and there is no greater authority figure on a team than the coach. Needless to say, in today's warped, self-indulgent climate, too many players couldn't care less about appeasing the coach.
Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.
I had a really good time at MGM. And we had no quarrels much, except once in a while, I'd go up to the front office and say I thought I should be doing something big, like washing elephants. . . All my life I wanted to have talent. . . Finally I had to admit there was nothing there.
The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.
People stereotype pop stars, but Christina [Aguilera] proves them wrong with her unique style and talent.
because talent alone doesn't make an artist
Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make it? They feel, and often with considerable justice, that they are being overlooked while others with less talent are out there making careers for themselves. I always give the same advice. I say, Do it the hard way, and you’ll always feel good about yourself. You write because you have to, and you get this unbelievable satisfaction from doing it well. Try to live on that as long as you’re able.
Talent is a valued tormentor.
Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.
Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did achieve.
Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.
My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.
Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.
Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more.
A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.