“A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.” ShouldFilmStarsTalentCarCreatingMassFellowsEdgesGloriousGreat MenLos AngelesUnfortunateCatastropheMudSlidesSpectacularCemeteryUnstableMuddyCanyonsFilm Stars Author:Bill Mollison
“No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.” WorldSeemsJoyUnderstandingGriefMusicWrittenTalentProductsMusic IsMiseryGreat MenComposerDistress Author:Franz Schubert
“I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.” ThinkingMenSometimesValuesPiecesSacrificeTalentEssentialsObjectivesPreservesGreat MenEpicGrandeur Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.” MenFirstsWellsKindLittlesWholePleasureQualityEffectsTalentFashionGreatnessGeniusAssumingAll KindsGreat MenEfficientPossessedGiftedVentureConstructsBoastSeriousnessDazzlingWorkmenGiftedness Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.” MenWantStillsPlayUseOpportunityGivenTalentCompromiseGreat MenDenzel Author:Denzel Washington
“Am I a great manager? Huh. I was blessed to have a front office that found great talent, and then I was smart enough to stay the hell out of their way.” WayEnoughFoundHellTalentFrontsOfficeSmartBlessedManagersGreat MenGreat TalentGreat ManagersFront Office Author:Sparky Anderson
“I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.” ShowsFilmRolesComedyTeamTalentManagementAgentsFeaturesGreat MenGreat Management Author:Olivia Stuck