„Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.“

„Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.“

—  Harvey Pekar writer 1939 - 2010

„You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do (the) same for others“

—  Keith Olbermann American sports and political commentator 1959

[From Twitter]

„I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.“

—  Katharine Hepburn film, stage, and television actress 1907 - 2003

„[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. … any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.“

—  Stewart Copeland American musician; drummer of The Police 1952

From an interview published at JamBase.com http://www.JamBase.com

„When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air – the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest.“

—  Michael Bloomberg American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City 1942

http://mikebloomberg.com/en/issues/public_health/mayor_bloomberg_delivers_opening_address_at_ceasefire_bridging_the_political_divide_conference
Partisanship

„Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, książka Safe Haven

Źródło: Safe Haven

„It's easy to become anything you wish… so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.“

—  Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese

Źródło: American Born Chinese

„Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.“

—  Agatha Christie, książka Dwanaście prac Herkulesa

Źródło: The Labours of Hercules

„You can either look at your career as the things you're going to leave behind, and they have to be executed flawlessly and you have to know exactly what it is that you're doing. Or you can be realistic about the fact that you're going to learn as you practice what you do.“

—  David Fincher American film director 1962

About the film, The Social Network

„If you're a bad actor, you don't get hired. But if you're a bad doctor, you can still practice medicine.“

—  Richard Burton Welsh actor 1925 - 1984

In Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor: The Love Letters. How drinking cocooned them from pressure of fame. Without it, they couldn't even make love http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1284504/Richard-Burton-Elizabeth-Taylor-The-Love-Letters-How-drinking-cocooned-pressure-fame-Without-make-love.html, Mail Online, 7 June 2010

„You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius….“

—  Margot Asquith Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit 1864 - 1945

Quoted in Jack Fishman's My Darling Clementine, the biography of Winston Churchill's wife. (p. 131).

„…There’s two sides of the coin: One where people don't expect you to do anything and won't let you do anything because they think you don't know how, and then the other side is when you're fucking up but they won't tell you because you're a girl. Then you don’t learn.“

—  Esperanza Spalding American jazz bassist and singer 1984

On how recording in the studio can be a double-edged sword in “Esperanza Spalding: Insubordinate by Nature” https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/9830-esperanza-spalding-insubordinate-by-nature/ in Pitchfork (2016 Mar 8)

„Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.“

—  Pythagoras ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585 - -495 p. n. e.

As quoted in Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras by John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook. (1999)
The Golden Verses

„You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.“

—  Tim Berners-Lee British computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web 1955

From An Insight, An Idea with Tim Berners-Lee http://www.weforum.org/sessions/summary/insight-idea-tim-berners-lee at 27:27 (25 January 2013)
Kontekst: When somebody has learned how to program a computer … You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

„A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.“

—  Anthony Kiedis, książka Scar Tissue

Źródło: Scar Tissue

„You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.“

—  Robin Hobb American fiction writer (pseudonym) 1952

Źródło: Golden Fool

„A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men — and people in general.“

—  Lorraine Hansberry playwright and writer 1930 - 1965

As quoted in Wild Women Talk Back : Audacious Advice for the Bedroom, Boardroom, and Beyond (2004) by Autumn Stephens, p. 15

„Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.“

—  Guy Kawasaki American businessman and author 1954

„Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.“

—  Malcolm Gladwell journalist and science writer 1963

Źródło: Outliers: The Story of Success