"Talent is only the starting point."

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"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Talent, Endurance, Success, Truth

"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

Talent, Direction, Lies

"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."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Talent, Modernity, Media, Competition

"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

Talent, Truth, Happiness, Life, Inspirational

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

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Talent, Literature, School

"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Talent, Inspirational, Power, Happiness, Truth

"Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio."

George Eliot, British Author

Talent, Skill, God, Creation, Art

"He has tongue of a writer."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Talent, Expression, Truth, Wisdom, Power

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Talent, Writer

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Talent, Expression, Desire, Growth

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"Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies."

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"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."

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"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."

Power

"Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies."

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"There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny."

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"There's no people like show people."

People

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"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."

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

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

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

"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"

"Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio."

"He has tongue of a writer."

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

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

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"Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies."

"Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life."

"After you get what you want you don't want it."

"You're not sick you're just in love."

"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it."

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."

"Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies."

"There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny."

"There's no people like show people."