Language Quote by Marion Dane Bauer Download Open image “another word for talent is obsession.” — Marion Dane Bauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Obsession Talent
I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Obsession is a synonym for magic. Magic is a synonym for genius. It's a knack. It's an aptitude. — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Talent is any recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied.” — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
I have always known I had talent, LOL, but to be called a 'talent' feels a little strange - but well within my comfort… — Dan Pena Copy Share Image
“What is generally recognized as “great talent” is, in almost all cases, nothing more than the outward manifestations of an unwavering dedication to a… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument. — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“The power of fiction is that it gives us, as readers, the opportunity to move inside another human being, to look out through that… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools. — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Never think of revising as fixing something that is wrong. That starts you off in a negative frame of mind. Rather think of it… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
I used to tiptoe up to my bedroom door and leap into my room in an attempt to surprise my dolls in the midst… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include. — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“But never in his saddest dreams had he thought he'd spend his last years dusting this enormous old house for no one at all.” — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“You should know better than to run from a storm, too. We wolves are careful. Always we are careful. But we are not afraid.… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“So much longing. So many lives filled with longing. It's what stories― all our stories― are made of. And what is longing made of… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image