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#talent

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Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.


Steve Martin


#celebrity-memoir #creativity #creativity-and-attitude #memoir #perseverance

You know, I don’t get why Fred and George only got three O.W.L.s each,” said Harry, watching as Fred, George, and Lee collected gold from the eager crowd. “They really know their stuff. . . .” “Oh, they only know flashy stuff that’s no real use to anyone,” said Hermione disparagingly. “No real use?” said Ron in a strained voice. “Hermione, they’ve got about twenty-six Galleons already. . . .


J.K. Rowling


#funny #george-weasley #useless-talents #funny

Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents.


Jennifer L. Armentrout


#humor #stupidity #talents #humor

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#cannot #great #however #learned #man

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.


Kurt Russell


#because #close #educated #evaluate #game

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.


Anton Seidl


#competent #concert #development #disciples #does

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.


Greil Marcus


#dispensing #elvis #his #point #talent

Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.


Orrin Woodward


#self-perception #talent #leadership

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.


Anna Pavlova


#arrive #being #genius #into #talent

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.


Quintilian


#barren #consequently #derive #devoid #more






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