- Players
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people who want to be serious artists probably don't want to go for a talent show, but it is a great launching pad.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.'
- Gilded
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- Nov 07, 2020
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.
- Great Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, I'd like to work with him again someday.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mobile Web, location-based services, inexpensive and pervasive mobile apps, and new sorts of opportunities to access cars, bikes, tools, talent, and more from our neighbors and colleagues will propel peer-to-peer access services into market.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her - looks, talent, opportunity, with her 'whole life ahead of her,' yadda, yadda, yadda - yet was spiraling into misery.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020