Talent Quotes - Page 27

• If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it -- and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.

  Don Alias

  Apollo, Crowds, Like You

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• Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Art, Taken, School

  Manuel Álvarez Bravo, A. D. Coleman (1987). “Manuel Álvarez Bravo”, Aperture

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• God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea.

  Dino Kartsonakis

  Ideas, Giving, Endeavor

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• I have often said one of the greatest secrets of missionary work is work! If a missionary works, he will get the Spirit; if he gets the Spirit, he will teach by the Spirit; and if he teaches by the Spirit, he will touch the hearts of the people and he will be happy. There will be no homesickness, no worrying about families, for all time and talents and interests are centered on the work of the ministry. Work, work, work-there is no satisfactory substitute, especially in missionary work.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, People, Worry

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

  Lauren Bacall

  Real, People, Real Talent

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• The talent God gave me is beautiful and wonderful, but it is difficult because you are always facing other people keen to judge you. There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.

  Mario Balotelli

  Beautiful, People, Judging

  "Balotelli: I'm a misunderstood genius". Interview, www.espnfc.com.

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• Mumbai Indians will strive to build on our proud legacy of giving youngsters a platform to showcase their talent and realise their true potential.

  Nita Ambani

  Giving, Legacy, Mumbai

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• I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

  Roger Ailes

  Unique, Thinking, People

  "Roger Ailes on Roger Ailes: The Interview Transcripts, Part 1" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 25, 2011.

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• Without a doubt, because now in the music business talent and hard work isn't enough. There is just a lot of luck and marketing money involved in making any artist break. "Fall Down" is about a relationship, but you could certainly apply it to the relationship we've had with each other and throughout our career.

  Jason C. Miller

  Fall, Hard Work, Artist

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.

  John le Carre

  Artist, Assassins, Smugglers

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• In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.

  Philip Treacy

  Dog, Real, Men

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• Talent is a long patience.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Long, Long Patience

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• I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

  Mary J. Blige

  People, Labels, Music Business

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• Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Sea, Solitude

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1850). “Dramatic works: Comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont. Transl. by Anna Swanwick. And Goetz v. Berlichingen. Transl. by Sir Walter Scott. Carefully rev”, p.227

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• The key is to get it all down on paper before the coffee stops telling you you're talented.

  Gary Gulman

  Coffee, Keys, Paper

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• I was in the beginning of junior high. When I was first offered the record deal, a lot of people were concerned, saying to me, "Stacie, you are so young, and you have a great talent but you don't have to do this right now." If you can do it now, you're only going to get better, you're only going to learn more, and you can do it at any point in your life.

  Stacie Orrico

  People, Get Better, Records

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

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• Basically my personality, and my talent, and my lyrics are so outstanding that what listeners can tell is that I put so much hard work into what I'm doing because it comes through my music. So I feel that my music for one will get my point across. I write from my heart and my spirit... You know what I'm sayin'? Some people don't know their place, they're just like "Oh I rap because I'm tryin' to get this or that, and I'm doin' this because I want to get money.

  Lil' Mama

  Rap, Hard Work, Writing

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• A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes." I'm not inventing anything that's going to stop cancer or muscular dystrophy or anything, but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it. When someone do say something negative, most times I think about it, but it don't bother me that much.

  B. B. King

  Cancer, Thinking, People

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• The caliber of play in professional football compared to college is better and everybody knows it. They don't realize how much better. What a giant leap forward in the ability of talent level, the speed, and even the grasp of what you are trying to do. There is no other distractions before the players.

  Marv Levy

  Football, Player, College

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. December 24, 2004.

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• Through the art of personal development, we see an opportunity for these animals to inspire compassion, essentially creating a path to deep personal growth. This program [Animal sanctuary] will deploy ISF's youth development program, U Factor. The program helps youth identify their passion, cultivate their talent, amplify their purpose, and connect the younger generation to diminishing species and biodiversity.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Art, Passion, Opportunity

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.

  Daniel Boulud

  Real, Successful, Cities

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• As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.

  Zach Condon

  Lying, Thinking, Laughing

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• Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we see it now - because racism was created to justify slavery to build the capital for capitalism - and back in the day they respected talent over race. We had an African Pope in the late 5th century, we had an African Emperor of Rome, and early church Fathers were black.

  Immortal Technique

  Father, Race, Rome

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

  Erica Jong

  Creativity, Demand, Enough

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• You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, 'We know you're not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great.'

  Tori Amos

  Mean, Montana, Want

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