Talent Quotes
3157 quotes by 2208 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.
— Alec Baldwin
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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
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I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
— Lucille Ball
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
— Honore de Balzac
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
— Honore de Balzac
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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
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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
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The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
— Charles Barkley
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
— Bruce Barton
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
— Scott Adams
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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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