How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent (2014)

Re:How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent (2014) by gjm11 on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @09:26AM (#10152119)

You're missing one level of reference here. The usual joke has the person reply "Practice". The article is suggesting that talent is more important, relative to practice, than is commonly thought.

So when you see the headline you're supposed to read the first bit, expect the ending "practice", see "talent" instead, and understand that the article is likewise going to replace "practice" with "talent" somehow. (Or to look back at it after reading the article, see what they were playing at, and be impressed by their wit.)

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Re:How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent (2014) by techsupporter on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @12:31AM (#10157432)

Ah, I suppose I am. I've heard the joke as "talent" or some variation, though maybe people just use talent and practice interchangeably.

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Re:How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent (2014) by jleyank on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @11:08AM (#10152817)

Practice without Talent might still produce useful output. Talent without Practice just makes for frustration.

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