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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
The qualities I look for in planners or creatives is very much the same thing. Beyond the givens of talent and work ethic, I really look for people who are inspired by the everyday, people who are not afraid of the obvious and are able to reinterpret it into a creative and interesting manner.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the best developers can learn any language; if they are a good developer, they can learn whatever. But the raw talent, the ability to learn it and do it and demonstrate the ability is helpful.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm an entrepreneur and I have an idea, and I don't have the development talent around me but I need to find a developer, I would do my selection just like I would with hiring an employee.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberal interventions that enable all children to shoot for their potential aren't just moral, they are pragmatic - any society that wastes talent to poverty or oppression isn't just evil: it is stupid.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If critics were harder on the musicians that they love, there would be better songs. But as they grow older and they lose their talent, critics refuse to let them know that and protect them, and they get to the point where they put out music that just isn't up to the levels where they've already been.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized early on I was not an actor. And it was a great thing to have that realization. To see actors and see what that talent is... it wasn't me.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to watch 'America's Got Talent' every Tuesday just to scout out the competition so I can see what I'm up against.
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- Nov 07, 2020