- Day
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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
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.
- Big Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never seen a talent like Ronaldo. He always scores, scores, scores. The first game he played for Milan, Sienna away, I said to him, 'I can't put you on the pitch. You are 100kg.' 'Mister,' he said, 'don't worry, I will score.' I put him in, and he scored twice.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
- Discrepancy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Britain's Got Talent' just gave me that platform that I needed to share that with the world and be recognized, and now I'm able to travel the world and sing my music in places I never thought I'd visit - Dubai, Mexico, Brazil, so many different places.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
God gave me the ability, so why not? Go out there and play for Him. Maximize the talent He gave you.
- Gaming
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo started 'Achievement Hunter,' we expanded heavily into 'let's play'-style gaming videos and have since expanded with a massive roster of gaming talent and multiple channels dedicated just to gaming videos.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a young age, it is hard to be different from the crowd. I want to encourage young girls that it is cool to be different. Young women should be pleased they have something unique and make the most of their talent.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020