"He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better."

Talent, Dedication

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"He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better."

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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"He has tongue of a writer."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war."

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"Focus on remedies, not faults."

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