- Go
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
- Nov 07, 2020
It was so nice to see that the Chelsea supporters appreciated my talent and my work at Atletico.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.
- Dry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could have been in a house show the day before being flown in to do the Survivor Series. I'd do that pay-per-view, then fly out the next day to go do another house show. The pay-per-view just happened in the middle of a 30 or 40-day road tour. For us back then, the WWF talent, it was just another day of work, another day of being on the road.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hung out a lot with the ring crew guys. I got along better with them then I did the other guys, the other talent. The guys that show up early in the morning and set the ring up and stay there all day and then take the ring down and drive five and six hours that night to get to the next show.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vince and WWE, they're not fresh. Yes, Vince does big business. They have the best talent in the world, but they have no fresh ideas. They should be selling out every arena.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once said to someone, 'If I could shave my head and wear no makeup and get a part just on my talent, I would be the happiest person in the world.'
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started off with 'Dance India Dance,' even the TV show people thought it won't be accepted. But with the talent that the show received, I was able to personally tutor dancers to amalgamate contemporary dance moves on Bollywood tracks.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot put a song - you cannot put a person's talent over somebody's humanity. That's just insane.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020