#talent

And I told her point blank, you've got everything to live for. You've got such talent. You're back singing great, lose the weight. And she went and did it, and look at her now! ↗

— David Gest

#blank #did #everything #got #great

Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#background #both #carry #classical #classical music

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#also #amateur #babe #babe ruth #baseball

I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#companies #day #encouraging #exposure #forward

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#devotion #i #most #poetry #quite

When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#days #dizzying #experimental #feel #female

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#current #develops #full #human #human life

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#finds #great #great talent #happiness #really

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#because #get #happen #luck #out

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#comedy #could #doing #ensemble #felt