#talent

I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me. ↗

— Sally Struthers

#am #amazing #around #feel #i

Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#eric #happen #talent #waiting

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. ↗

— Stephen King

#basic #basic elements #change #choose #elements

The talent is in the choices. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#talent

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#friends #himself #lazy #out #person

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#desire #intense #intense desire #only #opportunities

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that. ↗

— Derek Jeter

#believe #excuse #harder #i #i believe

...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent. ↗

— Benjamin Zander

#contradiction #creativity #possibility #talent #art

A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person’s unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#courage #judgment #ki #life-force #meditation

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#emotion #essay #expression #poetry #talent