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Talent Quotes
"You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is."
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"There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks."
3
"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."
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"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."
3
"To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity."
3
"If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow."
3
"I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser."
3
"I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality."
3
"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."
3
"The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it."
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"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
3
"The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent."
3
"Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent."
3
"Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability."
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"Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility."
3
"I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."
3
"If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues."
3
"There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen."
3
"Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man."
3
"Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties."
3
"You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team - I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill."
3
"It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise."
2
"In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward."
2
"He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable."
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"Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write."
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"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
2
"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel."
2
"Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery."
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"I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it."
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"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself."
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