Amazing Talent Quotes

• The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Teaching, Use

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• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

  Stephen King

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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  Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

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  Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Artist as Housewife" (1972)

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• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Beautiful, God

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• I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Work, Book

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Stories, Study, Talent

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• This is just too awful. Such an amazing talent [like George Michael] gone too soon. Wham was part of the soundtrack to my teenage years.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Teenage, Years, Gone

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• What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world.

  Mike McCue

  People, World, Crafts

  "What Drives You? 10 Top Tech Mavericks tell us what drives them and why". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, 'We know you're not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great.'

  Tori Amos

  Mean, Montana, Want

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• From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

  Daniel Boulud

  Japan, Thailand, Cuisine

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• I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another.  One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next,  visceral, ironic and relevatory-here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent.

  Janet Fitch

  Ironic, Next, Waking

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• My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

  Pat Metheny

  Brother, Player, Cities

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• I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

  Guy Clark

  Player, Guitar, Years

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• There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

  John Lasseter

  Jobs, Creative, Talent

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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 look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Looks, Ugly, Actresses

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