Ice Cube
Rapper, Actor
"Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself."
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Talent
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Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am."
Marlon Brando
Actor, Director
"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power."
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"No other person ever has, or ever will have, the unique blend of talents, strengths, and perspective that you have."
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"My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get."
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"Talent is not sexually transmitted."
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"I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!"
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"Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you."
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"If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary."
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"All I can say is that my ambition far exceeded my talent."
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"As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business."
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"Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft."
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"I'm taking my talents to South Beach."
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"Character is more important than talent."
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"Great geniuses have the shortest biographies."
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"Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life."
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"Find your own 'sweet spot'. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them."
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"However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born."
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"Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles."
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"We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent."
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"It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent."
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"Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter."
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"alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see."
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