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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
- Nov 07, 2020
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice.' I'm a coach. I'm there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
As companies deal with the impact of technology and the incredible pace of change, they are fundamentally rethinking talent and family leave programs.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is so much talent in Australia.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
- Nov 07, 2020
As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was seven, my mom would come home every day, and I would have the phone book open to talent agencies, and I would have them highlighted.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
The genesis of the Thinking Talent app came from wanting to create a way to scale self-discovery with a framework that we, personally, inside of the company, have used really successfully.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020