Talent Quotes
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What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Your career and your passion don't always match up. Plenty of talented people don't have the careers they want. Plenty of untalented people make millions and make movies. There is a difference between determination and talent.
Amy Poehler
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There are two ways to become famous. Degrade yourself or have talent. The first way is easier.
Gary Janetti
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Your ambition outweighed your talent
Casey Stoner
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I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life? That's why people can leave their car keys in the gutter; they're in the midst of obsession and concentration.
Ethan Canin
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A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.
Carol Mann
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I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.
Jonathan Dee
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All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.
Paul Merton
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Talent will come out.
Ray Walston
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Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.
Paul Rand
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Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.
Satya Nadella
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I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country.
Cornelia Fort
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Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
William Hazlitt
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Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.
Slash Guns N' Roses
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I changed my hopes to being a singer when I was a child and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac Davis songs. Writing was sort of a last stand. Come to think of it, it was the only "talent" I had that anyone asked for more of.
Elizabeth Crook
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The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
Albert Einstein
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All the talent in the world is useless without perseverance.
Steve Morse
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To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.
Benjamin West
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Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.
Anita Loos
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Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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Our philosophy is to attract top talent and incentivise them to succeed. We have some of the top talent in the entire industry.
Vivek Ramaswamy
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My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
Vivienne Westwood