Talent Quotes
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There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case.
Maiwenn -
The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.
Vittorio Alfieri
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We just want to get more talent and more depth.
C. Vivian Stringer -
You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
Iris Apfel -
I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
Kat Dennings -
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.
Natalie Imbruglia -
I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer.
Harold Prince -
Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would just come up and say 'hello' before asking for an autograph. I wish they would just say, 'Hello, I'm so and so, and I just want to shake your hand.' I'm impressed when I find people like that. Most people just say, 'Sign here,' and treat you like a statue.
Eddy Arnold -
I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.
Joshua Lederberg -
There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.
Daniel Akaka -
Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!
Prince William -
My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
Jack Welch
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A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
Irrfan Khan -
Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.
Charles Marion Russell -
Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent.
William Blake -
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.
Jerry Lee Lewis -
I was very insecure at the beginning of my career. I didn't value my talent. I would have probably skipped signing up for movies that I didn't want to do if I had understood that I had been accepted and people liked my work.
Kangana Ranaut
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Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I always tell people that I am most proud of the fact that the Ushahidi story has provided an inspiration to other techies in Kenya and Africa as an example of the kind of talent the continent holds.
Ory Okolloh -
Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
Wallace Stegner -
When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
Wyclef Jean Fugees