Talent Quotes
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I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.
Simon Toyne
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It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.
Stephen Covey
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Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.
Michael Arndt
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If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend.
George Washington
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Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.
Diane Ackerman
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No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
Norman Rockwell
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
Steve Martin
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Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.
Richard Nelson Bolles
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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.
Vivien Leigh
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You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.
Nicholas Sparks
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You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.
Billy Wagner
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Im not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.
Sebastian Coe
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An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.
Norma Shearer
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
Robert W. Service
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This is just too awful. Such an amazing talent like George Michael gone too soon. Wham was part of the soundtrack to my teenage years.
Nicola Sturgeon
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They say in that book (Keneally's Schindler's List) that I gave the Jews the food in their mouths. I never had time to find out who was sick and who had to be fed (by hand). I am no good as a nurse, I tell you frankly. I have no talent for nursing . . . I bought the food for everyone.
Emilie Schindler
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There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
John Graham Mellor The 101ers
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There are still concerns at both the top and the bottom. The goal would be to get a tighter range that would ensure that even more than 20 clubs at Labor Day still have a chance to compete for playoff spots, that playoff spots are based on skill and talent and blossoming stars and not just on plugging holes with economics.
Bob DuPuy
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Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but—this was the dirty secret—you needed luck.
Allegra Goodman
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I want to do things where the talent range is difficult and that scare me. I thrive on that; if it's not scaring me then I'm not growing.
Nina Dobrev
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People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.
Bo Belinsky
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Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As you give God your time, your gifts, your resources and talents, He will use them to have a critically important and eternal impact on this world.
Christine Caine