Great Talent Quotes - Page 2

• Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, Play, People

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• There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

  Seneca the Younger

  Elements, Madness, Talent

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• Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new moon on the Isle of Avalon," he said. "Yep. Good for one hour of great talent," said Annie. Jack smiled, remembering their hour as horse trainers and their hour as stage magicians. "I wonder what we'll be great at this time," he said. "Maybe great nurses?" said Annie. "We'll see," said Jack. He put the tiny bottle in his backpack; then he picked up the piece of paper from the floor. On the paper he had written the two secrets of greatness they'd

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Horse, Moon, Greatness

  Mary Pope Osborne (2014). “High Time for Heroes”, p.11, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it.

  Joel Osteen

  Average, People, Talent

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• I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that - in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the - of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House.

  George W. Bush

  White, America, House

  George W. Bush during a Meeting with President Arroyo of the Philippines, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 24, 2008.

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• Great talent admits shortcomings.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Talent, Shortcomings

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• I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

  Gustav Mahler

  Brother, Men, Musician

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• I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Peace, Mean

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.153, Humanix Books

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• With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Honesty, Hypocrite

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• Think what a contribution selfish people of great talent could have made if their commitments had been made to Jesus Christ instead of to themselves! We will do better in every aspect of our lives if we commit to a God in whose life we see miracles, power over disease and death.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  Jesus, Selfish, Commitment

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• If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Talent, Ability, Deficiency

  'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 2 (11 December 1769)

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• Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

  Seth Godin

  Encouraging, Persistence, Ideas

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• You have to believe you're great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn't because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I'm the best player in the league.

  Brett Favre

  Believe, Wrestling, Player

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• If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

  Eddie Murphy

  Country, Opportunity, Watches

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am very proud of my musical growth and contributions to the band in the last four years. I have nothing but positive thoughts and feelings towards John, Mike, James, and John. Jordan Rudess is a friend of mine and a great talent. I wish all of them the very best!

  Derek Sherinian

  Years, Feelings, Growth

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• Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

  Laozi

  Teaching, Talent, Notes

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.

  Joseph Addison

  Strong, Men, Sight

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.130

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• Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

  Zubin Mehta

  Rocks, Talent, Rock Music

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• The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

  Kevin Spacey

  Home, Memorable, Theatre

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• I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better I would love to be a writer.

  Shiloh Fernandez

  Writing, Thinking, Talent

  "Next Factor: Shiloh Fernandez". Interview with Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. March 9, 2011.

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• Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hands, Style, Execution

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.87, Ravenio Books

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• I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Wish, Admiration, Talent

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• We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Artist, Differences, Vision

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.195, Open Road Media

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• There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder. Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  People, Eric, West

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Few Friends, Talent, Admirer

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