Jaimie Alexander Quotes

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

At the end of the day, if you can't say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are.

I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

It's a cliche, but most people are good at something, and most people are good at what they're enthusiastic about.

When you have to make a choice between capacity and capability, I would go with capability.

I know what I can bring to the table wherever it is.

I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.

I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.

The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.

There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".

What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude.

You double your intensity with skill.

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.

It's a real testament to the amount of skill and talent involved, across the board, whether it's the production design, the construction, the costume design, the other actors, the way it's shot, the directors we had on it, or obviously John's writing. When things do go well, it sometimes seems easy, in a weird way, but it's actually down to a lot of cogs working in a big machine. But, I'm certainly happy to be going back. I'm excited to carry on.

I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.

It's weird to be very good at something and not necessarily to want to do it.

Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?