Quotes with talent

  • What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.
  • 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.
  • It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
  • You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.
  • If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
  • Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
  • 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.
  • Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
  • America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
  • They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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  • Gore Vidal A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Roy L. Smith Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
    Roy L. Smith
    American clergyman and author
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Concealed talent brings no reputation.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Jack Nicklaus Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Mel Brooks Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
    Mel Brooks
    American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer (1926 - )
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  • Bruce Barton Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith A bestseller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
    Afterthoughts
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Sydney Smith A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bradley Joseph A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.
    On running a label
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • Charles Horton Cooley A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • David Ogilvy A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Cyril Connolly A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Carlisle Floyd America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Bruce Springsteen And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • James Baldwin Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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