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Quotes About Talent

I think good actors tend to be really funny.
~ Zooey Deschanel
I was a great student. I was good at everything.
~ Donald Trump
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
~ Ronald Reagan
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
~ Honore de Balzac
The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.
~ Nick Lowe
Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.
~ Aziz Ansari
Who was the best pilot I ever saw? You're lookin' at 'im.
~ Gordon Cooper
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.
~ Peter O'Toole
Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.
~ Truman Capote
When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!
~ John Madden
Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.
~ Merlin Mann
I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.
~ Casey Stengel
To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.
~ Benjamin West
I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
~ Usain Bolt
People are not your most important asset....the right people are.
~ James C. Collins
I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.
~ Robert Mitchum
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
~ Marie Corelli
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.
~ Shana Alexander
You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.
~ Kit Harington
When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
~ Morgan Freeman
I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any.
~ Arthur Miller