“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.” IfsKnowsMenWorldGivingShouldSelfCharacterEyeWonderMoralSacrificeTalentQuietGoodnessIntellectualSacredTendenciesFacultyDispositionDivorcedBrutesSelf SacrificeStrength Of CharacterNature Of ManEminence Author:George Henry Lewes
“The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.” PeopleIfsWayYearsMeanSometimesRunningArtistWonderTalentWeaponsNotionStarvationBourgeoisieSubsistence Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
“Murphy had found a spot on the street, which made me wonder if she didn't have some kind of magical talent after all. Only some kind of precognitive ESP could have gotten us a parking space on the street, in the shadow of a building, with both of us in sight of the apartment building's entrance.” IfsKindMadeFoundSpaceWonderStreetsTalentBuildingShadowSightSpotsApartmentEntrancesParkingMurphyParking SpaceEsp Book:White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files Source: White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton ... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.” PeopleIfsWantTryingPlaySeemsNightGivenRoomsWonderTalentHard WorkEqualHarderScalesWork HarderEricYour RoomKenny Author:B. B. King
“I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder.” PeopleI CanUsedWonderCareersTalent Author:Madonna Ciccone
“One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.” MenReasonUseShowsLyingUnderstandingAnimalWonderGenerationsTalentSonPrideDiscoveryPrejudiceRegardInstinctSpeciesFacultyHumankindWiserPreservationCompassDeprivedConfinedSkepticalBrutesContinuance Book:The spectator Source: The spectator
“I won a scholarship to come to LA and compete in a modeling and talent completion and was amazed when I won it. I had never acted before in my life and won the acting category. I began to wonder what this is about and then decided to see what happened.” ActingWonderHappenedTalentDecidedCategoriesAmazedModelingScholarshipCompletion Author:Eva Longoria
“When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the way I think you, and PTA, and Fincher are born directors. Maybe some people's talent is in understanding the ways that film communicates, without dialogue, without plot.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFilmUnderstandingBornNaturalWonderTalentDirectorsCommunicateDialoguePlotPta Author:Edward Norton
“I love to see new talent, new people beginning. It's a wonderful thing, and one wonders where their journey will take them. Sometimes they ask me for advice but it's very difficult to advise people. Everyone has their own destiny really.” PeopleSometimesAsksDifficultWonderDestinyWonderfulJourneyAdviceTalentAsk MeWonderful ThingsAdviseNew Talent Author:Greg Lake
“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)” MenChildrenReadingLosesImaginationWonderFantasyTalentMoonMethodPityConclusionSteadyStatus QuoAbsorbing Author:Albert Einstein
“Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.” ThinkingGivingMindHeartLostSecretWonderPovertyFailingTalentBattleWineThanksReleaseLiftsBottlesAnxiousLoadEvokeCowardly Book:The Satires of Horace and Persius Source: The Satires of Horace and Persius
“There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder. Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.” PeopleStillsWonderTalentWestSurvivingEricGreat Talent Author:Ahmet Ertegun
“I do feel that both visual artists and writers look out at the world in a similar way, and wonder at what they see. They want to record the visual world in their own, distinctive ways. We could call it "attention to detail," which also makes a good carpenter, for instance. To be what Emerson called the "transparent eyeball" (which is a phrase that makes me a little queasy) is a noble quest, I feel. It's a quest for honesty, and as Frost put it, a momentary stay against confusion. If I had more talent and courage, I would still love to be a painter.” WorldArtistAttentionWonderTalentHonestyConfusionPainterCarpenterVisual Art Author:Connie Wanek