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“Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.”

Certain Talent Amount Musical Hopefully Musical Talent

Author:Leo Ornstein

“God gives everyone the same amount of talent. It's just up to you to korek (dig).”

Giving Talent Amount Up To You

Author:Yasmin Ahmad

“It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.”

Talent Amount Extraordinary Saddest

Author:Gedde Watanabe

“No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does.”

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Author:Sidney Mohede

“Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.”

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Author:William C. Bryant

“There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.”

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Author:Anne Truitt

“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.”

“Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work even if they don't feel like it. Anybody can get maudlin and decide to write poetry at 11 at night; the question is, can you do it at 8:30 on a Monday morning..?”

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Author:Clive Barker

“The beauty of running your own label and your own show is that you are in charge. I get sent a huge amount of musicfrom new and established talent every day, so if I like a track, I play it - no questions asked.”

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Author:Nicky Romero

“There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."”

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Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.”

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Author:Terry Gilliam

“Natural talent means to have the ability to transform, to evolve, to play and role-play with the photographer and the stylist. And really be an actress rather than just a mannequin. So that involves a tremendous amount of confidence and your ability to expose yourself to anything that will make a better photograph.”

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Author:Michael Flutie

“People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good fortune, or whatever, but when your moment arrives, you have to have been at a point where you paid your dues, or done your 10,000 hours or have the requisite talent or whatever.”

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Author:Damon Lindelof

“There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and inventor, plus a leading author, statesman, and philanthropist. There has never been anyone like him.”

Nations Four Talent Amount Scientist Instruments Plus Sheer Inventor Statesmen Franklin Philanthropist

Author:Charlie Munger

“There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.”

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Author:Zig Ziglar

“No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.”

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Book:A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.”

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Author:Ahmed H. Zewail

“Anybody can develop a certain amount of talent at something. However, the supremely talented - the superstars - are people who have married a gift of brain wiring to those thousands of hours of practice, usually in favorable circumstances.”

People Certain Hours Brain Practice Talent Amount Circumstances Married Superstar Wiring

Author:Kevin Maney