Untalented Famous Quotes & Sayings
40 Untalented Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.— Al Capp

Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions portrayed; it is only the untalented who make their own limitations those of the actors as well.— Liv Ullmann

Of Dixie Doyle it is said that she could convince grown men of anything. While she is only a mediocre student and a wholly untalented tennis player, she possesses a quality of performed girlishness that turns sex into a ragged paradox for men beyond the age of thirty. She speaks with the hint of a babyish lisp, the pink end of her tongue frequently peeking out from between her teeth, but her eyes are implacable fields of gray that at any moment could conceal everything you imagine - or nothing at all. She might be an X-ray registering the skeleton of your soul, or, like Oscar Wilde's women, she might be a sphinx without a secret.— Joshua Gaylord

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

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

It quickly became apparent that to Mr. K, there was no such thing as an untalented kid - just a kid who didn't work hard enough. You are going to fix this problem, he said when he diag- nosed whatever was wrong, and there was never any question. Of course you would. It was just a matter of trying and trying and trying some more. He yelled not because we'd never learn, but because he was absolutely certain that we would.— Joanne Lipman And Melanie Kupchynsky

Common criticism of the Internet is that it is dominated by the crude, the uninformed, the immature, the smug, the untalented, the repetitious, the pathetic, the hostile, the deluded, the sefl-righteous, and the shrill. This criticism overlooks the fact that the Internet also offers - for the savvy individual who knows where to look - the tasteless and borderline insane.— Dave Barry

Being rich is an untalented artist's consolation prize.— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.— Tony Hoagland

The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.— Eric Hoffer

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people ...— William Gaddis

In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them— Eric Hoffer

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

There are no musically untalented people.— Igor Levit

[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.— George Will
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It is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men.— Karen Essex

In short, if the Muse exists, she does not whisper to the untalented.— Steven Pressfield

I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more often, completely untalented. I certainly did not like to practice, and the teacher who hit me, and the view of the park, did not help to improve my attitude.— Georg Solti

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.— George Balanchine

The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In an affluent society, the alienated who clamor for power are largely untalented people who cannot make use of the unprecedented opportunities for self-realization, and cannot escape the confrontation with an ineffectual self.— Eric Hoffer

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.— Tony Wilson

In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.— Theodore Roethke

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.— William Friedkin

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

When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented ... I had an absolute vision after the first workshop meeting.— Paul Engle

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? to the finger on the button? to the law of averages?— Gore Vidal

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

I love working for myself. I've grown to dislike the Hollywood machine. Too much bull, disappointment, and quite frankly, untalented, mindless, and hugely disrespectful people involved in the process. I'll take carrying the load on my back, all the way up Everest if needed, to be able to steer away from it.— Corbin Bernsen

Rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.— Dorothy Cannell

My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.— Ken Venturi

Untalented people, unintelligent people go into politics. Those who are talented become artists, painters, poets, philosophers, mystics, dancers. They have a thousand and one other beautiful things to do, not politics. Only the third rate, the most unintelligent part of a country, moves into politics.— Osho

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.— Isabelle Huppert

I was an absolutely untalented designer.— William Clay Ford Jr.

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

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.— Eric Hoffer

I have little talent with the pen, I assure you." He gazed at his son, then back to where the man at the entrance had stood. "But I admire those who do." He smiled again. "And I can't help but be enraptured by story. And desirous to stick my untalented pen in places where it doesn't belong to make a tale dance to my bidding.— Anne Mallory

Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.— Max Stirner

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.— Raymond E. Feist
