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“Drive will take you much farther than talent ever could.”

Author:Mod Sun

“He is an exceptional talent. I still think Diego Maradona is the best player I have ever seen but Messi is closing in fast. He's a wonderful sight in full flight and we are lucky to have him around.”

Thinking Stills Player Wonderful Talent Lucky Sight Flight Exceptional Closing Best Players Messi Maradona

Author:Ander Herrera

“I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.”

Thinking Littles Bits Practice Talent Little Bit Guitar Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Tim Hudson

“Some learning and talent professionals, together with some organisations, are finding it a challenge to make changes from these age-old HR and learning practices. However, it is inevitable that they will need to adopt new ways of learning to support new ways of working sooner rather than later.”

Way Needs Age Together Challenges Practice Support Talent Findings Inevitable New Ways Making Changes Organisation

Author:Charles Jennings

“Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.”

Character Leader Talent Ought Scare Giftedness

Book:Next Generation Leader

Source: Next Generation Leader

“I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents.”

Knows Needs Feels Stories Actors Class Talent Fine Negative Relation Rings Tunes Crave Public Relations Brass

Author:Michael Welch

“We get talent and scale from mergers.”

Talent Scales Mergers

Author:Angela Braly

“I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog.”

People Knows Want Mean Shows Sleep Talent Jersey New Jersey Underdog Squad

Author:Fetty Wap

“There's no director or actor that I want to work with more than anyone else, other then maybe Johnny Depp, who I really would love to work with. I don't view any directors or actors above regular people, so I'm just happy to work with anyone, as long as they have talent.”

People Want Long Actors Views Talent Directors

Author:Callan McAuliffe

“I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent?”

Thinking Feels Writing Ends Lines Wife Written Talent Scene Satisfaction My Wife Dialogue The End Of The Day Agony Bloody Crap Ugh

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I don't have weird talents I'm just a weird person! And do impersonations.”

Persons Talent

Author:Derek Holland

“One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely resembling a talent of Borges' caliber, but he is an inspiration and a proof that one can be a meaningful and successful writer while blind.”

Stories Inspiration Successful Talent Blind My Favorite Proof Meaningful Short Story Essayists Caliber Borges Story Writers

Author:Larry Howes

“The most important lesson I think I could impart is don't let anyone determine what your horizons are going to be. You get to determine those yourself. The only limitations are whatever particular talents you happen to have and how hard you're willing to work. And if you let others define who you ought to be, or what you ought to be because they put you in a category, they see your race, they see your gender and they put you in a category. You shouldn't let that happen.”

Ifs Thinking Important Hard Happens Race Talent Particular Willing Ought Lessons Determine Gender Limitation Horizon Categories Be You Impart Important Lessons

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Matter Moments Shows Seems Audience Imagine Talent No Matter What That Moment Stable Imagine That

Author:Joan Didion

“I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors.”

Feels Writing Acting Talent Tvs Right Now Directors

Author:Christina Ricci

“I usually say I might have a talent or I'm lacking a talent, because everyday, I must tell you, I thank whatever is up there or out there that I'm alive and that I get to do what I'm doing, and I think that sends off a lot of good vibrations in different directions.”

Thinking Different Might Alive Talent Everyday Lacking Vibrations Different Directions I'm Alive Good Vibrations

Author:Peter Stormare

“I want people to see my movies. My talent, my sensibilities are what people want to see in the movies... While I have the talent to make the kind of movies people want to see I want to continue to do that, keep making big pictures and make what I love. I’m really just making the films I want to see. There’s not a strategy.”

People Want Kind Bigs Film Talent Strategy Sensibility Big Picture

Author:Brett Ratner

“I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough. I went to drama school with so many great actors who are not doing it anymore and it's circumstantial.”

Thinking Enough School Actors Opportunity Talent Drama Bravery Profession Great Actors

Author:David Oyelowo

“Clearly, audiences are very accepting of A-list talent both giving them what they want - Tom Hanks is the most classic example - and then going on, from time to time, to do things that are unexpected. That's part of what makes people want to go to the movies and not just sit home.”

People Want Giving Home Accepting Audience Talent Example Lists Classic Unexpected Toms

Author:Mark Canton

“There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to.”

Thinking Way Real Certain Language Social Talent Security Taxes Clever Reform Phrases Relief Aspire Social Security Manipulative Disingenuous Real Talent

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Trying your best not to get stressed out, the hardest part is not to get down, not to let the business get to you. I think the business is more mental than it is talent. I think you can have the talent, but if you don't have it up here, I think you can easily just break down.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Break Talent Hardest Breaking Down Stressed Stressed Out Try Your Best

Author:Bow Wow

“You don't do any show to be celebrated. In fact, you don't do any show thinking what's going to happen in the end. You immerse yourself in a room full of talent and a room full of designers and you hope for the best.”

Thinking Ends Facts Shows Happens Rooms Talent Designer Hoping For The Best

Author:Susan Stroman

“In the fetus, or a really young child, all the different brain areas are connected to each other, diffusely. And as the brain develops, the excess connections are turned off, so you get very specialized areas. So most people have really specialized talents. What happens in creative people is this pooling doesn't take place.”

People Children Different Happens Young Brain Creative Talent Areas Connections Connected Excess Creative People Young Children Fetus Turned Off

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.”

Book Ideas Individual Interest Talent Painting Contribution

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“I never considered myself an artist. I aspire to be an artist, but I never thought I had the depth or substance or gift to be an artist. I do think I have some talent, but it doesn't go as far as being an artist.”

Thinking Artist Talent Depth Substance Aspire Being An Artist

Author:Woody Allen

“I don't want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others.”

Ifs Want Giving Helping Talent Products Sells Brave Intention Helping Others Making Money Remembered Gates Good Intentions

Author:Lady Gaga

“I realized that it's my own fault that people take advantage of me. I should be around people who cherish my talents, my health, my time. I'm not a pawn for anyone's future business. I'm an artist. I deserve better than to be loyal to people who only believe in me because I make money.”

People Should Believe Artist My Own Talent Deserve Advantage Faults I Realized Making Money My Time Cherish Loyal Believe In Me Pawns Deserve Better Future Business

Author:Lady Gaga

“Depression doesn't take away your talents - it just makes them harder to find.”

Talent Harder

Author:Lady Gaga

“The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.”

People Ifs World Way Kids Film Born Generations Land Talent Mom Dad Prove Belts Mom And Dad Lead In Canon Helen Dames Scorsese Proving Yourself Raw Talent

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No one tries to cry except bad actors. How a character hides his feelings tells us who he is. Most people don't know that, and most actors don't do that. Therefore, there are a lot of actors who put me to sleep, that are considered good actors, but they're predictable and boring. I know how the scene is going to end before it ends.”

People Knows Trying Ends Character Feelings Actors Sleep Laughing Know How Talent Cry Scene Degrees Boring Crafts Predictable Good Actors

Author:Martin Landau

“I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them.”

Ifs Writing Wish Roles Talent Complicated Department

Author:Eva Mendes

“I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.”

People Knows Important Plans Talent Casts Crew

Author:James Gunn

“It seems to me like a perversion of talent for an artist of any kind to further the corporate structure of America or the personal interests of the morons and thieves who run it.”

Kind Seems Running America Artist Interest Talent Structure Corporate Thieves Moron Perversion Personal Interest

Author:George Carlin

“If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.”

People Ifs Trying Persons Ability Rooms Talent Iron Surround Smarter Surround Yourself

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.”

Talent Train Hopefully Get Better

Author:Debbie Reynolds

“I was blessed with the talent. God gave me the gift to put words together and make popular songs.”

Together Song Talent Blessed Popular Song

Author:Yo Gotti

“You go through high school and college the same way: never listening to your coaches because you're the best. But when you get to the pros, all that stops because everybody there has talent.”

Way School Talent College Listening High School Coaches You Re The Best

Author:Tom Brady

“It's about using social media for social change: creating a community of advocates who can use their voices on behalf of the voiceless, or leverage their talents, skills, knowledge, and resources to put more children into classrooms, or pressure their elected representatives to get global education top of the agenda.”

Children Use Social Voice Community Talent Media Skills Creating Resources Pressure Social Media Agendas Classroom Representatives Behalf Social Change Voiceless

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.”

Talent Taught Keys Skills Competencies

Author:Stephen Covey

“One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.”

People Children One Thing Talent Taught Diversity My Children Unbelievable Foster Children Giftedness

Author:Michele Bachmann

“I have a talent for missing the best and greatest parties.”

Party Talent Missing

Author:David Alan Grier

“I've met some real talents that were...real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people.People like Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, to a certain extent Jim Steranko, who is an institution all to himself. What a talent. What a genius talent.”

People Real Certain Talent Genius Mets Institutions Incredibles Als Gray Morrow Real Talent

Author:Mike Royer

“I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.”

Writing Plans Talent Skills Unfamiliar Technical Skills

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.”

People Talent Advantage

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I'm one dude that writes his adlibs. I don't just go in there and say "Gimme a track." I say what I'ma say here [then] I put effects on my voice. Why not? I wrote it. Why not show the talent? Why be scared? That's why I hate certain fans who hate cause it's not like raw hip-hop, like boom bap.”

Writing Shows Certain Hate Causes Voice Fans Effects Talent I Hate Track Scared Hip Hop Hips Hops Why Not

Author:Schoolboy Q

“People are brought up to think, "It's nice to be modest. It's nice to hide your light under a bushel." Well, bullshit! I've never bought that. In my business, the only thing you've really got is your talent; it's the only thing you have to sell.”

People Thinking Wells Light Nice Talent Sells Bullshit Modest

Author:Johnny Carson

“I think we all do our own thing and we all have our own talents, but it's good to know that you have a family tree of success so if you need the help on your journey to success then you can look around and see it around you.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Looks Helping Tree Journey Talent Journey To Success

Author:Tyga

“I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.”

Talent Mets Ethics Winner Work Ethic

Author:Arnold Palmer

“The tough decisions that a president has to make in the Oval Office are in no way related to the capability of a person to do well on television. On the other hand, the capability of a person to project favorably on television enhances that person's odds of being elected so he can serve in the Oval Office. So you can't ignore the talents, one, to be very effective on television, and on the other hand, to be very effective as an operating president.”

Way Wells Persons Hands President Decision Talent Television Office Projects Tough Related Capability Odds Oval Tough Decisions

Author:Gerald R. Ford

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