Norma Shearer Quotes

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.

Norma Shearer

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• Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

  

  T.I.
  • You
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • Problem
  • Ego

• I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Inspiration
  • Look
  • Philosophy

• It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • You
  • Talent
  • Just

• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Long
  • Ego

• I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Dark

• I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • History
  • Fighting

• I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Work
  • Real
  • Boy

• One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Learned
  • Manager

• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Vision
  • Eye
  • Talent

• The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Ambitious
  • Monstrosity

• I did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Always
  • Year
  • Actress

• To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • History
  • Thought

• I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Friends
  • Intelligent

• Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Picture
  • Acting
  • Talent

• I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Interest
  • Talent
  • Directing

• So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'

  

  Raekwon
  • Real
  • Help
  • Attention

• The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Work
  • Important
  • Proud

• Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Knowing
  • England
  • Hardcore

• You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

  

  Azim Premji
  • Business
  • Fashion

• One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

  

  George Brandis
  • Free
  • Politics
  • Corruption

• An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.

  

  Norma Shearer
  • Talent
  • Ego
  • Actress