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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through. -- Sam Mendes
With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour. -- Mario Andretti
Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances. -- James E. Loehr
The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft. -- Will Smith
The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you born with, but skill can only be attained through Hours and Hours of hard work perfecting your talent as a craft. Which is why Talent will fail you without skill. -- Will Smith
The vast majority of Airmen we train are going to be somewhere in harm's way within the next year or two. It is up to us to impart to them the talent and skill they need to accomplish their mission in a world-class fashion and at the same time make sure we get them back safely to the families that love them. -- William R. Looney III
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. -- Steven Spielberg
Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow. -- Paul Watson
Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. -- Dean Koontz
Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering. -- Jonathan Tisch
Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents. -- Jeff Hawkins
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. -- Edward de Bono
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it. -- Margaret Heffernan
Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art. -- Wesley Snipes
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. -- Larry Bird
When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, 'Oh, she's going to be a movie star.' No one. I had to get by with actual skill and talent. -- Rebel Wilson
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents. -- Conrad Burns
We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual. -- Lee R. Raymond
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence. -- Stephen Covey
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. -- Paul Rand
It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today. -- Michael Apted
God's given me so much talent, and my height doesn't define my skill set. I believe that God has given me a right arm, and for some reason, even though I'm 5'11", to be able to make the throws and make great decisions on the field and all that. -- Russell Wilson
Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are. -- Stedman Graham
Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted. -- Orhan Pamuk
many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill. -- Judy Delton
Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come. -- Randall Dale Adams
Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop. -- Charles Stross
Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft. -- Will Smith
Every skill, every talent, every capacity, and every ability of the mind are really the Soul-action made visibly tangible. -- Joel S. Goldsmith
Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill. -- Ovid
Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice. -- Robert Stacy McCain
It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching? -- Terry Pratchett
Creativity is not a talent; It is a skill. A talent is something you are born with. A skill is something you learn. -- Josh Linkner
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent. -- Immanuel Kant
Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop. 99% of what you need to succeed in golf are skills -- Tiger Woods
Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill. -- Victor Davis Hanson
Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy. -- Alan Watts
Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for. -- Stephen Covey
Easy is not a option..No days off..Never Quit..Be Fearless..Talent you have Naturally..Skill is only developed by hours and hours of Work -- Usain Bolt
No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it. -- Derek R. Audette
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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
A man should never be judged by his skill, talent, colour, financial or political status, facial beauty and level of education but by the quality of his character. -- Paul Bamikole

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