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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
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And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers.
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Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a bit of a 'once a soap actor always a soap actor' thing, but I do think people still recognise talent. If you're good at something, then people have no choice but to accept it.
- Own
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I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.
- Great Talent
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
- Making
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Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
- Humanity
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Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
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- Nov 07, 2020