Emil Nolde Quotes

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

We are all more capable than we think we are.

People are sometimes like: "Oh man, you're so talented and you do a bunch of stuff." I'm not! I swear to god, I'm not. I just like learning stuff, I like doing stuff. And I feel like everybody can definitely do it.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

You're gifted to do something.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

Your talent is in your choice.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We've all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it's what I do professionally.

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

I think if you have ability and talent in one way, you have it in all ways. I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

I'm very comfortable with the idea of there being late bloomers, and for me, of course, there's no difficulty at all in the way that I think of talent and achievement and so on.