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  • Conceit spoils the finest genius.

    Life   Conceited   Genius  
    1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.
  • There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

    Work   Men   Two  
  • While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts.

    Art   Real   Teaching  
  • Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

    Real   Obstacles   Talent  
  • I've met some real talents that were...real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people.People like Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, to a certain extent Jim Steranko, who is an institution all to himself. What a talent. What a genius talent.

    Real   People   Genius  
    "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.
  • I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.

  • Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.

    Mother   Real   Justice  
    Gayle Pemberton (1998). “The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press
  • Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do something and you find it a very satisfying experience then you want to do more of it. The great teachers somehow convey in their very attitude and their words and their actions and everything they do that this is an important thing you're learning. You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. That's a real talent some people have to convey the importance of that and to reflect it back to the students.

    Teacher   Attitude   Real  
    "King of Cyber-Commerce". The Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.
  • I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for everyone.

    Source: collider.com
  • Unbelievable, George Michael has died at the age of 53. RIP.This dreadful year goes on and on.So sad, a real talent.

    Real   Rip   Years  
    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

    Real   Winning   Talent  
    "Drake Disses Macklemore At The ESPYS, Mocks His Music And Grammy Win" By Liat Kornowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2014.
  • Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.

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

    Real   People   Talent  
  • I’m going out to let my real talent show, not to just stand there and dance around. Personally, I’d never lip-synch. It’s just not me.

    Real   Going Out   Lips  
    "Ashlee Simpson takes 'SNL' lip sync blame". Billboard Interview, www.today.com. October 29, 2004.
  • The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.

    Morning   Real   Laughing  
  • Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.

    Art   Real   Hero  
    George Washington, Fred Anderson, Philander D. Chase (2004). “George Washington Remembers: Reflections on the French and Indian War”, p.92, Rowman & Littlefield
  • I have no real talents. If I could make a living at a normal job, I'm sure I would do that.

    Jobs   Real   Normal  
    "Mr. Daniel Tosh coming to NAU". The Lumberjack Interview, www.jackcentral.org. September 11, 2008.
  • The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how to spin things and how to create doubt. Creating doubt around tobacco for fifty years when they absolutely knew it caused cancer, that was a real talent. But meanwhile, the scientists, they're not there to go on television. Their brains don't work like that.

    Real   Cancer   Creating  
    Source: collider.com
  • What I've learned over the years is it's so much better to surround yourself with real talent and hire real chefs. I learned more from the chefs I have working for me than you could ever imagine. There's nothing wrong with being able to create opportunities for people, and you don't have to do everything, take credit for everything, and have all the weight be on your shoulders.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • My real talent was for losing clients.

    Real   Clients   Losing  
  • Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

    Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
  • Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!

    Father   Real   Thinking  
  • The world is full of educated derelicts.

    Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).
  • You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

    Real   Conceited   Long  
    Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women and Little Men”, p.198, Graphic Arts Books
  • I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

    Real   Men   Heaven  
  • We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real talents, but so often the 30 year slog knocks it out of people.

    Life   Real   Power  
  • When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things.

    Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.98, Penguin
  • But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.

    Real   Lying   Men  
    Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco
  • Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then paints in all the little details, so that you feel as though you are enmeshed in Coley's brain: thinking her thoughts, feeling her confusion, anger, and, in the end, pain. I just don't think it's possible to read this book and not identify with Coley in some way.

    Pain   Real   Book  
  • My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for language, but was stopped. When I expressed a desire to become a graphic designer, I was not stopped.

    Dad   Real   Desire  
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