Talent Quotes
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Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.
Carroll Shelby
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Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.
Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
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I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.
Imtiaz Ali
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I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
Pat Metheny
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We just want to get more talent and more depth.
C. Vivian Stringer
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Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.
Walker Evans
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It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.
Roy H. Williams
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In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My father has a beautiful, beautiful voice. His father was a pastor of a church. He sang in church. My mother sang in a church choir. I can take no credit for my vocal talent, because, both my father, and mother have beautiful, beautiful voices.
Deniece Williams
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I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.
James Brown
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In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it's books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it's yours.
Michael Jackson
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
Brian Tracy
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I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.
Xavier Atencio
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I don't know what anyone was thinking about when they decided to do this. I thought we were trying to spread the talent so the four best teams could arrive at the one spot.
C. Vivian Stringer
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I see someone like John Williams, the classical player, and the amount of discipline and the natural ability that man has is so frightening. That requires so much natural talent. And I think my talent came from just practising, and I feel a bit intimidated when I see players that good.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
Kevin Spacey
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Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.
Charles Marion Russell
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Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?
Edith Schaeffer
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People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.
Cecilia Bartoli
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Talent comes with an individual name tag.
Charles Handy
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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
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I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines. I'd kill it.
Hannibal Buress