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“The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I'd get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we'd learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no mistakes. All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?”

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Author:Eubie Blake

“Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.”

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Book:Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.”

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Author:Pete Docter

“When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.”

“I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.”

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Author:Bob Barker

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

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“Research shows that the happiest people are those who use their natural talents to the utmost.”

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Author:T. Harv Eker

“When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists”

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Author:Tom Rath

“Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)

“Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.”

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Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.”

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Author:Natalie Imbruglia