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Letter "T" » talent
«Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece by thought, choice, courage and determination.»
Author: John Luther
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
build, character, choice, contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, determination, determinations, extent, gift, given, outstanding, piece, Piece By Piece, praised, talent, talents, to that extent, to what extent, with determination
«I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.»
Author: Michael Caine
| About:
Actors and acting,
Talent
| Keywords:
actor, professional, skilled, talent, the point, The Professionals
«Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.»
Author: Sophia Loren
(Actress)
| About:
Self-confidence,
Talent
| Keywords:
avid, drive, further, mediocre, profession, superior, talent, vastly
«Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.»
«Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Talent
| Keywords:
discipline, endurance, luck, talent, usual
«I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.»
Author: John Wooden
| Keywords:
talent
«As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.»
«Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.»
«Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
adopted, adopts, cultivation, cumulative, extemporaneous, force, Half a Life, half life, imitate, imitated, insist, insisted, life force, possession, talent
«Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.»
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