Quotes with talent

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  • Brad Feld As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Alan Jay Lerner Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American film screenwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Alan Jay Lerner Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American screenwriter and songwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Lord George Byron But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ben Affleck But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Maya Angelou Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Collange Christine Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
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  • Louisa May Alcott 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.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Bethany Hamilton Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Nolan Ryan Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
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  • Truman Capote Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Bob Seger Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Ben Carson Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg Everybody who knows anything about me knows all I ever wanted to do is play pro football. But I didn't have the talent, and I got hurt a lot. I'd do anything to be out on the field.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Erica Jong Everyone has a talent, what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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