Untalented People Quotes

#1. Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people ...

William Gaddis

#2. I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them.

Tommy Lee Jones

#3. There are no musically untalented people.

Igor Levit

#4. There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

William Friedkin

#5. I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

Fran Kranz

#6. There are only so many people capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing. When it became possible to earn a very good living in advertising by exercising this capability, lyric poetry was left to untalented screwballs who had to shriek for attention and compete by eccentricity.

C.M. Kornbluth

#7. We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.

Bob Goff

#8. Sunday - the doctor's paradise! Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors.

Sylvia Plath

#9. Great design = getting people to do what you want.

Seth Godin

#10. Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.

Ernst Haas

#11. There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something.

John Jackson Miller

#12. One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?

Robert Gottlieb

#13. When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented.

John Patrick Shanley

#14. The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians.

William Gilmore Simms

#15. I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me.

Demi Moore

#16. Nature finds its peace in silence, forgiveness, and universal love.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Children ... need most of the same things adults need
consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

Caroline Pratt

#18. I fight cynicism. It's too easy. It's really boring. It's much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren't as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.

Ewan McGregor

#19. Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.

Cinda Williams Chima

#20. Just remember this: college is the most expensive place to be confused in the whole entire world.

Brittany Gibbons

#21. Oh my God, dude! You were beginning to freak me out. Don't do that to me! What do you really need to talk to me about?" His laughter faded when Thomas didn't crack a smile. "Tommy, knock it off.

Jamie McGuire

#22. We talked of love, and all we said would fill a book thicker than this. Yet all we said was only this: that I loved her and she loved me, and we had waited long and long, would be parted no longer.

Gene Wolfe