#talent

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#ability #believe #everyone #himself #i

There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#around #been #country #improvement #initiatives

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. ↗

— Steve Vai

#believed #bring #cultivated #deals #difficult

You never know why or when the next job is coming. I actually like that. It's kind of exciting. I don't punch in. I don't have a 9 to 5 job. When you do work you're lucky enough to go to interesting places and meet mostly interesting and talented people, so it's really a great job if you can work. ↗

— Michael Vartan

#coming #enough #exciting #go #great

I still have my talent to produce and direct. ↗

— Marc Wallice

#i #produce #still #talent

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#guts #helpful #necessary #talent #writing

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles. ↗

— Kim Wilde

#obstacles #real #talent #through #whatever

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different. ↗

— Carl Yastrzemski

#baseball #career #different #enough #how

The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those people--and that music does not have a better reputation...For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!...A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not--but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes--bad, if he always stays in the same place. If the archbishop would trust me, I would soon make his music famous; that is surely true. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#mozart #music #talent #travel #art

When a man devotes himself body and spirit to a single object, if he has training and aptitude, no matter how mediocre he may be in ordinary affairs, he will produce something so nearly akin to a work of genius as to deceive half the judges who think themselves competent to decide between genius and talent. ("The Phantom Model") ↗

— Hume Nisbet

#artist #genius #talent #art