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Talent Quotes


"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."


"You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition."


"I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent."


"I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin."


"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent."


"The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck."


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


"The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows."


"Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families."


"Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating."


"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."


"My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title."


"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."


"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once."


"Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen."


"I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."


"I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser."


"The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis."


"I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball."


"For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop."


"There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy."


"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."
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