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“Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.”

Writing Matter Attention Practice Talent Instruments Crafts

Author:Susan Wiggs

“One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.”

Able Practice Talent Benefits Motivated Violin

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.”

Soul Reason Practice Virtue Talent Genius Sublime Brilliance

Author:Andre Chenier

“[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate "culture" with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.”

People Matter Done Culture Individual Practice Talent Skills Unique Management Corporate Programming Initiative Hostile Exceptional Outlets Corporate Culture Submerged Unique Talents

Author:Bjarne Stroustrup

“[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.”

Ifs Should Soul Can Do Practice Talent Fool Jazz

Author:Stewart Copeland

“Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we're assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people's poems is pointless since those aren't our own inmost feelings.”

People Needs Writing Art Feelings Form Reading Practice Talent Poet Crafts Poetry Is Sincerity Assured Pointless Writing Poetry

Book:Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.”

Practice Talent Increase Repartee

Author:John Lothrop Motley

“Nobody - but nobody - has ever become really proficient at golf without practice, without doing a lot of thinking and then hitting a lot of shots. It isn't so much a lack of talent; it's a lack of being able to repeat good shots consistently that frustrates most players. And the only answer to that is practice.”

Thinking Able Answers Practice Player Talent Shots Golf Repeats Hitting Consistently

Book:Golf My Way

Source: Golf My Way

“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

“Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.”

Practice Talent Theory Genius Conflict Talent And Genius

Book:On War

Source: On War

“I don't practice. It's a gift. It's talent. Obviously, I do it all the time so it's like I'm practicing, but that's just what I do. Sometimes I'll be in the studio flipping through beats and I'll do something quick and people will be like, "What the?!" It's natural! I don't need to be nice like that, I just do it.”

People Needs Sometimes Natural Practice Nice Talent Beats Studios Being Nice Just Do It

Author:AraabMuzik

“I don't care how much talent a team has - if the boys don't think tough, practice tough, and live tough, how they play tough on Saturday.”

Ifs Thinking Play Care Boys Practice Team Talent Tough Don't Care I Don't Care Saturday Alabama Football

Author:Bear Bryant

“The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.”

Believe I Believe Natural Ability Practice Talent I Believe In Natural Talent Talents And Abilities

Author:Jamie Bamber

“Talent is the discipline, commitment, and willpower to practice/train/study often, long, and hard. Discover your passion and pay the price.”

Long Hard Passion Leadership Pay Practice Study Talent Discipline Commitment Train Willpower Pay The Price

Author:Bradford Winters

“Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice.”

Thinking Mind Practice Special Talent Judgment Reasoning Faculty

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant or prodigy. The uplifting news, though, is that many talented people don't have such natural wiring - but they forge a talent through thousands of hours of what's known as deliberate practice or deliberate performance.”

People Seems Hours Natural Known Practice Talent News Performances Extremes Uplifting Deliberate Prodigies Wiring Savants Deliberate Practice

Author:Kevin Maney

“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