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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is so much talent! Now, we may not have at the moment that transcendent next-level 'Stone Cold' or The Rock, but I assure you, they're there.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather make music if I had the talent.
- Dined
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still trying to find the actor I want to be, but I know what kind of the talent I want to be around.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to put on a Deep Purple record and say, 'That sounds great.' But why? Part of it is individual practice, but by playing together, a talent of meshing happens.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020