Hidden Talent Quotes

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

My whole life, I thought I sucked. And then I get in here, and I grapple other people, and I'm like, 'I'm actually good.'

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally strange reason we think other people can accomplish things that we cannot. I want you to understand that that is not true. You have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you that you can bring to the surface and achieve all that you desire

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

There's not enough Ice Cubes out there. There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing.

The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry our their dream.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered--either by themselves or by others.

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.

Honestly, I never dreamed of being a writer; it felt too unrealistic to even dream about.

The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas that were not harnessed, songs that were not sung, and drama pieces that were never acted.

Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.

Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

So few people know what they're capable of.

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.

There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.'

He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.

Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.