Talent Quotes
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
William Hazlitt
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Felix is one of those guys who comes along every 10 or 20 years. He's a tremendous talent -- for his age, unbelievable. And he's handled all this hype like a champ.
Eddie Guardado
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I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
Thomas A. Edison
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You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.
Kevin Kline
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Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.
Odd Nerdrum
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I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Jonathan Swift
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Children's lies are signs of great talent.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and anti-Semitism.
Csanad Szegedi
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When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.
Whoopi Goldberg
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Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.
Howard Stern
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My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.
Grace Slick Starship
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You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.
JJ Feild
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They're in a little slump right now. That affects a lot of things. I've been in Sean's situation, and he's got his hands full for the rest of the year, just to keep his kids feeling confident in their abilities. He has to really work to keep the kids engaged, because he's got talent there. Those kids are gifted.
Brad Soderberg
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Consummate talent and relentless passion - The Truth ain't pretty...but it rocks like crazy!
Billy Squier
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You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.
Abhinav Bindra
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Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.
Shinichi Suzuki
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Everywhere I go, people hear Ricky Williams and the next thing they think is marijuana or wasted talent.
Ricky Williams
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When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet-therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.
Stephen Covey
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
Tacitus
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I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.
Ernest Hemingway
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In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last.
Sandy Koufax
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The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
Michael Caine