- Global
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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
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider most of the talent in the financial world to be suboptimal. It could be better placed earning its living in the real world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't wait 'til the world embraces Chicago - not only for our talent, but just to visit our city and not be so scared to come to it and not be subjected to what people's perception is of it.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is amazing how quickly a true talent can announce itself. In the case of Myla Goldberg, it is not even a matter of pages, but of sentences.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020