Talent Quotes
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Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.
Red Auerbach -
Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
Russell Banks -
I think people of lesser talent will become stars.
Howard Stern -
Good attitude is most important. Good talent is second.
George H. Morris -
What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.
Arsene Wenger -
Let me show that I have that talent.
Helio Castroneves -
Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.
Paul Pierce
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Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!
Thomas Carlyle -
After a few years, we realized that you did have to put some work into it. That's why the bimbo comments make me angry. After seven years, people have to realize we have a certain amount of talent.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in a remarkably engaging way. That’s why I turned to Russ when I needed someone to present on the subject to the annual staff retreat of the Drug Policy Alliance. And it’s why I repeatedly recommend him for speaking and media opportunities. He’s good!
Ethan Nadelmann -
Puerto Rico's relationship with music is everything. It's an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.
Bad Bunny -
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach -
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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I want to continue to grow. To me, the biggest sin of all sins, is to be given a gift, a talent, because it's actually a gift from God, to take that and not cultivate it and make it grow, that's the biggest sin in the world.
Michael Jackson -
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
I parted ways with the Congress, a party that I served for so many years, because its leadership constantly humiliated me by ignoring my talent both as a leader and an administrator.
Satpal Maharaj -
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 -
Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.
Judy Blume
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A young comic, if he's any good, can easily get on 'Carson' or 'Griffin' or 'Dinah Shore,' because they want to say the same thing, that they discovered the new talent.
Norm Crosby -
Great offices will have great talents.
William Cowper -
A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.
Morgan Freeman