- 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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- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.
- Love
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Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
- Determination
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Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim. That Gehry is a great artist I have no doubt, but talent and determination are no warrant against confusion, nor are they a guaranty to produce great art.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Seventies was a golden era. Back then we had some incredible talent with bands like the Undertones, the Rolling Stones and artists like Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney.
- Motivational
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be a singer. I was going to finish school and go to Berkley, and then Vine came out, and I felt like I could finally show people my talent. I can even sing in the Vines. It's honestly changed my life. I don't know where I would be right now without it.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The core concept of Samasource is essentially that technology helps us unlock human talent wherever it may happen to reside. That we should no longer be victims of the birth lottery. That no one should be stuck in a poor place where they don't have a job simply because of an accident of birth.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline - it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As bad as some of the teams in the NFL seem to be, they all have way more talent than any college.
- Nov 07, 2020