Talent Quotes

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Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel. — Mary Kay Ash
Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself… — Kevyn Aucoin
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse… — Jane Austen
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be… — Francis Bacon
Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. — Kevin Bacon
What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society.… — Erykah Badu
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just… — Pearl Bailey
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a… — Russell Baker
I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. — Alec 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 A. Baldwin
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. — Lucille Ball
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. — Honore de Balzac
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. — Honore de Balzac
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet… — George Matthew Adams
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can. — Maurice Baring
The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work. — Charles Barkley
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand. — Bruce Barton
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. — Joseph Addison

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