#talent

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#clutter #dropping #gets #had #i

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard. ↗

— Cheryl Lynn

#hard #i #into #like #real

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#career #contrived #destroys #hear #hype

The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like - who are very talented. ↗

— Frank Oz

#i do #important #like #more #people

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well. ↗

— Bruce Paltrow

#back #beating #believe #corner #get

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anyone #caprice #fates #inoculated #intelligence

But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals. ↗

— Randy West

#being #bright #day #many #member

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#poetry #talent #youth #age

Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #languages #polyglots #questionnaires #talents

One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like products. While every Macintosh model has had flaws (some more than others), most of them have has a sexiness and a design sensibility that has turned many consumers into instant converts. Macintosh owners upgrade far more often than most computer users for precisely this reason.” (p.98) ↗

— Seth Godin

#macintosh #medusa #steve-jobs #talent #upgrade