#talent

We like to think about how smart we are. 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

#any #basic #basic elements #change #choose

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#man #rare #rare thing #succeed #talent

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#could #did #had #i #like

The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#believe #bounds #collaboration #continuing #great

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way. ↗

— Bob Seger

#could #even #had #high #i

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#absolutely #almost #both #equipment #hands

Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game. ↗

— Caroll Shelby

#game #his #matter #out #point

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#applied #because #being #believe #book

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#attention #doing #extra #just #may

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#attention #mental #nothing #period #prolonged