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#talent

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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent


Isaac Newton


#talent

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.


Norman Mailer


#enough #hands #his #journalist #lawyer

it's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.


Andrew James Pritchard


#fame-and-fortune #life-skills #popularity #talent #art

I do not fear that "future generations will not read novels," etc. It is probably a complete misunderstanding to conceive of serious art in categories of production, market, readers, supply and demand(...)art is not the fabrication of stories for readers but a spiritual cohabitation, something so tense and so separate from science, even contradictory to it, that there can be no competition between them. If someone fine, dignified, prolific, brilliant (this is how one ought to speak of artists this is the language art demands) is born in the future, if someone unique and unrepeatable is born, a Bach, a Rembrandt, then he will win people over, charm and seduce them...


Witold Gombrowicz


#artists #reader #science #talent #writing

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.


William Cobbett


#men #much #oftener #perseverance #talent

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.


Antonio Banderas


#even #fantastic #get #making #movies

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.


Ayn Rand


#aristocracy #birthright #meritocracy #nobility #talent

I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.


Ellen Barkin


#caught #character #construction #does #done

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.


Fantasia Barrino


#bigger #lips #talent

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther."


Ludwig van Beethoven


#barriers #erected #far #farther #industry






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