Children Quote by Willa Cather

“Do you still call it talent, if it blooms without any kind of nurturing? That's got to be something else. She made talent sound…

— Esi Edugyan

We were surrounded by people who saw that in me. Milton Berle's mother told my mother, 'She has talent.'

— Leslie Uggams

“Formerly, in my attempts to isolate this talent, I deducted, so to speak, from what I heard, the part itself, a part, the common…

— Marcel Proust

“Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.”

— Matthew Quick

She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is…

— Gregory Maguire

“Talent was merely the underpinnings. To be an artist, you also had to have nerve. And to maintain nerve, you had to have drive.”

— Tom Robbins

“She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with…

— Jane Austen

“The extraordinary mystique of hers made you think she lived on rose petals and listened to nothing but Mozart, but it wasn't true. She…

— Andre Previn

“She'd been a hard taskmistress - How can you be a grown-up if you can't look after yourself? she'd challenged - but she had…

— Alison Fell

“Talent [by which I think she meant technique] without genius is not worth much; but genius without talent is worth nothing whatsoever.”

— John Eliot Gardiner

“What was it - this implacable remoteness, this inability to surrender herself to the warmth and comradely feelings of others? Could being an academic…

— Tom Wolfe