- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talent Quotes
On gifts, hard-won skill, and where talent gets spent.
These quotes treat talent as both a private gift and a public resource, one dancer describing ballet as a sacred calling, another noting how so much top talent flows into finance and law instead of helping marginalized children. See Best quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a modest amount of looks and talent, and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into 50 years of good fortune.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.
- Coaching Staff
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never expected to do what I can, but with my coaching staff and my training and coming to terms with my own ability and my own talent and realizing the potential that there is, I've decided that I want to make a run for it. I'm training, and I'm fighting for a title.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe Mel Gibson is an extraordinary talent.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talent works, genius creates.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.
- Ahead
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there were some dubious feelings about it, that the first 'Scarface' would not be surpassed by the second 'Scarface.' We were wrong; it surpassed it. The acting talent, the cinematography - we were propelled into a real class action film. Long after I kick the bucket, it'll be played.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.
- Nov 07, 2020
Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
- Nov 07, 2020
The talent is in the choices.
- Please
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- Nov 07, 2020