Quotes with talent

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  • Jim Carrey If you've got a talent, protect it.
    Jim Carrey
    Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist and screenwriter (1962 - )
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  • Bobby Sherman If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.
    Bobby Sherman
    American singer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Salvador Dali In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. It constrains men to recognize it.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jonathan Swift Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Jonathan Swift Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a happy talent to know how to play.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Margaret Fuller It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • James Baldwin 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.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • W. H. Auden It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Louisa May Alcott It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Robert Benchley It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Barry Bonds It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
    Barry Bonds
    American professional baseball player (1964 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Napoleon Let the path be open to talent.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Carla Bley 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.
    Carla Bley
    American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936 - )
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