"Hard work is for people short on talent."
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"My talents are in demand, and my unique gifts are appreciated by those around me."
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"Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world."
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"I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say."
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"There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art."
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"Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen."
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"When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me."
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"Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates."
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"Good writing comes from good talent."
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"Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience."
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"The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy."
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"I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent."
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"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
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"All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise."
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"There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent."
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"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess."
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"The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent."
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"I had little talent for happiness."
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"Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were."
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"I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic."
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