Raw Talent Quotes

• It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Passion, People, Young

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• Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

  Eric Burns

  Inspiration, Greatness, Discipline

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• Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.

  Eric Burns

  Greatness, Execution, Potential For Greatness

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• I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

  Keith Urban

  Artist, Talent

  "Keith Urban Sets Date for New Album, Has 'No Official Information' on 'Idol' Return" by Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 28, 2013.

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• The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.

  Tom Rath

  Successful, Practice, Skills

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• My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

  Michael Sheen

  Sports, Chiefs, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

  Timothy Zahn

  Opportunity, People, Luck

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• Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the ones she did. I had the raw talent and the raw human being, before the sycophants arrived.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Years, Sycophants, Humans

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• What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience.

  Bruno Mars

  Mirrors, Guy, Back In The Day

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid, you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story, you're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  F. Gary Gray

  Kids, Age, Add

  Source: collider.com

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• Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.

  Zig Ziglar

  Differences, Important, Desire

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.27, AudioInk

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• It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Dumb, Luck

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• I've never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity that Chicago theater has, and I think it's because Chicago doesn't have Broadway or the film and TV business to distract it.

  Nick Offerman

  New York, Integrity, Thinking

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• Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all.

  Larry McMurtry

  Life, Art, Editing

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Interview with Gary Oldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

  Bruno Mars

  Mirrors, Guy, Back In The Day

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• I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?

  Jon Voight

  Class, Guy, Decision

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