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“The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.”

Needs Hands Eye Talent Painting Poet Painter Plus Coordination

Author:Robert Breault

“The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced - that without intelligence we should be brutes - but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.”

“The director is the captain of the ship, without question. No matter what their talent or energy level is, everyone on the crew has all eyes on the captain. If they come in going, "I don't know. Maybe we'll do this. Maybe we'll do that," you've got 10 days to shoot and they don't care what you're doing.”

Ifs Knows Matter Eye Care Energy Levels Talent Directors No Matter What Don't Care Ships Captains Crew Energy Levels

Author:Melissa Leo

“Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there."”

Thinking Way Kind Littles Eye Sin Cities Behinds Boys Talent Draws Casts Mickey Sin City

Author:Frank Miller

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?”

Source: Essays, First and Second Series

“The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.”

Eye Talent Reverence

Book:Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle

Source: Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle

“We have the reverse of the Puritan work ethic in America now. No one ever becomes a star by plugging along year after year. What is needed is flair, talent, 'an eye,' contacts, charisma, and, most of all, naturalness.”

Years Eye America Stars Talent Needed Ethics Contact Reverse Work Ethic Charisma Puritan Flair Eye Contact

Book:Style and substance: a comedy of manners

Source: Style and substance: a comedy of manners

“Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.”

Should Eye Talent Strikes Rays Powerless Posterity

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.”

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Author:Anne Ellis

“There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"”

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Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason. And as this beauty is found in the shape and form of corporeal things, so also is there analogous to it a beauty of another kind, an order, a symmetry, and comeliness in the moral world. And as the eye perceiveth the one, so the mind doth by a certain interior sense perceive the other, which sense, talent, or faculty, is ever quickest and purest in the noblest minds.”

Source: Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion Against Those who are Called Free-thinkers

“I think I have a good eye for talent. I think I'm smart enough to figure out what the mission is and achieve it. I achieve it by hiring good people.”

People Thinking Enough Eye Achieve Talent Figures Smart Missions Good People Hiring

Author:Roger Ailes

“Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.”

Eye Dark Talent Caught Forests Sooner Or Later Firefly

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“This Guy (Messi) is the Best Player in the World, no doubt about that. I think we're always nervous about calling people who are currently playing, who are young at 23, to say he's the Best Player ever. But we shouldn't be. We should admit what we are seeing in front of our eyes. This is a special talent, who may be is the Best Player ever been seen.”

People Thinking World Should May Eye Young Guy Doubt Player Seeing Special Talent Fronts Calling Nervous No Doubt This Guy Best Players Messi Special Talents

Author:Gary Neville

“I was such a tomboy - goofy and, in my eyes, nerdy - and I never thought I would end up in modeling. I mean, you see pictures of these girls in magazines who have this incredible talent, and no one ever really thinks you can make it to that level. At least I didn't!”

Thinking Mean Ends Eye Girl Levels Talent Incredibles Magazines Modeling Goofy Nerdy

Author:Erin Heatherton

“You need to do some work even if you have the talent. So I just went the way that was easier, the way I knew what to do, but I have always had the pleasure of the eye. I've always enjoyed color. I'm a knitter.”

Ifs Way Needs Eye Pleasure Talent Color Easier Enjoyed Knitters

Author:Nell Irvin Painter