Pastoral Resources

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

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.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Its super to play with Martina, and she has huge amounts of talent. We have a lot of fun.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.