A Quote by Colin Clark

Skills are common. Talent is rare.

Colin Clark

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Colin Clark
British - Writer
October 9, 1932 - December 17, 2002

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

Kurt Vonnegut

Skills can be taught. It's tough to teach heart. Talent is fairly common.

Bill Johnson

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

Donald Hall

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

Lytton Strachey

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Joseph Roux

What Beats brings to Apple are guys with very rare skills. People like this aren't born every day. They're very rare. They really get music deeply.

Tim Cook

Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that mediocrity is a portion of almost all of us, but that we can contribute from the storehouse of our skills to the enrichment of our common life.

Joshua L. Liebman

Everybody has talent and it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night - and also something that you have a talent, not a talent for, but skills that you have a natural ability to do very well. And usually those two things go together.

George Lucas

The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.

Tom Rath

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.

John Berger

I got some advertisement work and I also did 12 to 15 workshops to enhance my acting skills because there is no alternative to talent; if you don't have talent, then you don't stand a chance.

Richa Chadha

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

Stephen King

I don't even have any good skills. You know like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!

Jon Heder

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

Nancy Mitford

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