Quotes with talent

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  • Erica Jong Everyone has 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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  • Brenda Blethyn Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
    Brenda Blethyn
    English actress (1946 - )
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  • Anton Chekhov Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Henry David Thoreau For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John W. Gardner For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Carl Lewis For years, people have looked at Beamon's record as unattainable. I don't accept that. I believe the Lord has given me a talent. I know the record is inside me and I will attain it.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Antoine Rivarol Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • O. Meredith Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
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  • Lady Blessington Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Sophia Loren Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
    Sophia Loren
    Italian actress (1934 - )
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  • Anna Pavlova God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • Peter Carey Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
    (2010)
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Hermann Hesse Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Robert Half Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Jack Nicklaus He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Ben E. King He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Claudius Here is a field open for talent; and here, merit will a have certain favor, and industry is graced with its due reward.
    Claudius
    Roman emperor (10 - 54)
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  • Carl Sagan Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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