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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved. -- Zubin Mehta
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. -- Honore de Balzac
I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it. -- Elaine Stritch
There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered. -- Vicky McClure
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer. -- Shiloh Fernandez
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances. -- Kevin Spacey
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
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. -- Joseph Addison
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I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.' -- Tracy Anderson
I think there are those individuals who are intimidated by really smart, talented people. But for me, surrounding yourself with great talent is the key to success. -- Monika Chiang
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. -- Samuel George Morton
At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both. -- William Ivey Long
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. -- Wendell Phillips
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
I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot of ways - they've got a lot of great talent, but at the same time, they don't nurture it. They lost 'Project Runway.' -- Patti Stanger
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. -- Salvador Dali
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it. -- Rick Wright
You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is. -- Ernst Lubitsch
The great player, so much of the greatness, in my mind, is in his heart and his head. It's not in his body, in his skill set. It comes from having great talent but wanting to mold that and fit it together into being special. And being special means winning championships. -- George Karl
There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness. -- Kaskade
Great talent admits shortcomings. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Children's lies are signs of great talent. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent. -- Steve Martin
Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent. -- Steve Martin
To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers. -- Benjamin West
You have great talent for great contribution to humanity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved. -- Zubin Mehta
You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary. -- Amy Bloom
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it. -- Walter Scott
I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs. -- Megan Smith
Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership. -- David McCullough
The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less. -- T. S. Eliot
I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor. -- Robert Rauschenberg
All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent. -- Zig Ziglar
You have a great talent and a great role in the world. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent. -- Jack Kirby
I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent. -- Henry Rollins
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. -- Warren Buffett
Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent. -- Lee Strasberg
Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent. -- Andrew Lo
If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist. -- Charlie Munger
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Great leaders have an ability, a characteristic of analyzing very good talent, and empowering that talent. -- Rick Perry
Hire the best talent to tell the story, or the view is great from my hotel. -- Komla Dumor
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. -- Stephen King
I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball. -- Tim Hardaway
Everybody has a talent, but its what you do with that talent to make it great. -- Alex Morgan
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. -- Sydney Smith
Desmond Mason is one of my best friends in the world. And he's a great, great talent. -- Michael Redd
I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent. -- Taylor Hackford
Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend. -- Dave Ramsey
The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics. -- Volker Ullrich
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing. -- Albrecht Durer
To become a good player, you need talent. To become a great player, you need an attitude like Kohli. -- Sunil Gavaskar
Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent. -- Truman Capote
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit -- Seneca the Younger
Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, Id like to work with him again someday. -- Lita Ford
Kathy Bates is sexy. It's partly because of her talent, but she's got a great face, and a great laugh. -- Denis Leary
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances. -- Kevin Spacey
I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. -- Christina Ricci
â?¦because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. -- Louisa May Alcott
Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience. -- Tom Felton
Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out -- Jerry West
Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star. -- Jason Alexander
Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating. -- Stephen Curry
The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted. -- Jonah Lehrer
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. -- Jonathan Swift
Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great. -- Billie Jean King
I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence. -- Alban Berg
This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous! -- Ray Davies
Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life. -- Anita Loos
Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential -- Gordon Brown
I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body. -- Tracy Anderson
Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies. -- John Gregory
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. -- Terry Gilliam
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
Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie. -- Slash
Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it. -- Pele
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
The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve. -- Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies for engineering talent, so it's a great time to invest and help build companies. -- Douglas Leone
What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game. -- Arsene Wenger
It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then. -- Julie James
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines. -- Edvard Munch
A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors. -- Margaret Heffernan
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
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work. -- Jack Nicklaus
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
I think I went more toward writing because that's my talent. I don't think I was a great performer... And I like being behind the scenes a little bit. -- Harvey Mason, Jr.
Am I a great manager? Huh. I was blessed to have a front office that found great talent, and then I was smart enough to stay the hell out of their way. -- Sparky Anderson
Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity. -- Franz Grillparzer
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
Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that. -- David A. Siegel
America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end. -- Karen Russell

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