#talent

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#balls #caring #demon #dickens #enormous

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. ↗

— Horace

#circumstances #dormant #effect #lain #prosperous

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent. ↗

— John Hughes

#got #had #i #into #movies

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do. ↗

— Richard Hughes

#deaths #ever #middle #middle age #more

I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time. ↗

— Bob Iger

#dedicated #disney #exciting #exciting time #grateful

Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#ancient times #asia #basis #brought #country

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#god #heaven #judgement #talent #life

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. ↗

— Maude Adams

#seeing #straight #talent #things

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance. ↗

— John Barrow

#cost #element #everything #fortune #good

What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.' ↗

— James Belushi

#avalanche #celebrity #comes #complicated #death