“You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.” PeopleGivingInspirationTeachTeachingTalentDisciplineCriticalTechniqueFacility Author:Anna Deavere Smith
“We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.” IfsKnowsHas BeensSpiritArtistDifferencesVisionTalentSkinsCaughtTechniqueSensibilityAdequateGreat Talent Book:The Irrational Season Source: The Irrational Season
“Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear.” PlaySchoolDifficultAbilityTalentMissingPositionProductsBearsAchievementEuropeBuiltProgramFingersExtraordinaryTechniqueContemporaryHallsDemonstrationPhenomenalPianistCarnegieChristinaEarly LifeRecitalsChromeJuilliardStockhausen Author:Donal Henahan
“A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject?” IfsStillsUseSchoolCoursesCareersWeekSubjectsTalentStudentsSolutionsHigh SchoolExcuseTechniqueDullPortionsDevotedMathematicianTrianglesFormal EducationHigh School StudentsTrigonometry Author:John G. Kemeny
“It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to dig into the truth and meaning of the world in which he himself lives; and what he creates, or better perhaps, brings back, are the objective results of his explorations. The measure of his talent--of his genius, if you will--is the richness he finds in such a life's voyage of discovery and the effectiveness with which he is able to embody it through his chosen medium.” IfsWorldAbleArtistBeliefResultsTalentMaterialsGeniusDiscoveryScientistTechniqueChosenObjectivesMediumsExplorationRichnessEffectivenessVoyagesResearchersTrue ArtistsVoyages Of Discovery Author:Paul Strand
“What I have noticed which I'm not nuts about that the trend that a lot of shows are hiring the American Idol type of talent without real training and real technique and I think that audiences are smart and sometimes seeing that things are not as high caliber as they were before.” ThinkingRealSometimesShowsAudienceSeeingTalentTypeSmartTrainingTechniqueTrendsNutsIdolsHiringAmerican IdolCaliber Author:Hugh Panaro