#talent

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies. ↗

— Ben E. King

#buddies #come #coordinator #dad #guess

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

I respect his talents, even as he does mine. ↗

— Jayne Meadows

#even #his #i #mine #respect

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them. ↗

— Thomas Kinkade

#finding #fruit #joy #life #others

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#born #claws #i #i was born #talent

If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#go #go for it #heart #passion #place

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#adapt #being #change #enjoying #get

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#absolutely #always #amazed #because #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

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets. ↗

— Robert Shea

#ahead #another #bypass #chess #get