Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Hi, I’m Kobe Bryant. And I have decided to take my talent to, uh… I have decided to skip college and take my talent to the NBA.

Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I’ve found, however, is work.

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

In many ways an artist is his work. It’s difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn’t work, I can...

If talent without hard work was a dead-end street,talent with hard work could only be a highway.

it’s all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

failure is costly, both to society and to individuals. Pretending that all people are equal in their abilities will not change the fact that a person with an average IQ is unlikely to become a...

I don’t know what it’s going to take. We just have to shake it up. We have the talent in here, so I’m not worried about us coming around. We just need to do something...

Talent is nothing without persistence.

I was impressed with the overall level of talent. But look, the bottom line is we’ve got a great bunch of guys at the camp that want to have fun and learn. We’re going to...

We try not to think of numbers and rank. We have a team with enough talent that if we wrestle our best, we can beat a team ranked higher than us, like Cornell.

Talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won’t be a commonplace dauber, so I don’t intend to try any more.

Justin Timberlake puts you to shame, having that much talent.

There is so much individual talent on this team that at any given point someone is going to step up and make a play. When someone gets it going, we’re going to go to them.

Sometimes just looking into a person’s eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.

If I had to drink water like my cat, I’d croak over dead in no time. Maybe it’s like eating rice with chop sticks? Both are absurdly difficult and unfathomable for me. Not that I...

He seems like a different player and very mature in his way of playing. He’s a huge talent and has been doing very well for us

Employee engagement takes mind, heart and hands unification.

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare...

I’m not going to make excuses, but I do feel we have the talent to be a very good offense. There are just a couple of areas where we have to do things better.

My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

Bakat harus dilatih, bukan hanya dilahirkan.

When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Your brand resides in your dominant talent. Other talents and gifts are only there to connect you to the right people for the right choice and the right places for the right actions.

Hope is not some abstract, softheaded concept. It is an idea with an engine.

Talent is being unabashedly and unapologetically fearless in the work that you do. The only difference between having talent and not having talent is fear.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea. And this is the age...

Art Is One if Life’s Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.

Real talent harnesses what it has and unlocks what it doesn’t. There is natural ability, there is the discipline that develops natural ability, there is the unending study of one’s craft, and there is the...

Obviously our talent pool has picked up from a year ago. We got more talent this year. Nothing against last year’s team but ya know certain guys came to the team and now we got...

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

I think there’s an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.

It’s easy to criticizing or assuming people’s talent what really they’re,then you’re still outside, step in, take a chance and explore them.

If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in a book, you will certainly find them because it was said:...

Talent is divinely gifted, and never to be cheaply exchanged for the sake of trinkets and fame.

Teams were well-coached. But I think the talent level was down. Last year was one of the stronger years, so maybe when you lose that much [talent], it just seems that way.

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one’s talent or value.

Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can play the ‘Gloria’?

A real talent has a spark that shines bright when it’s dark to ignite knowledge and awaken minds, but to differentiate the illumination of this wisdom light from the electricity light a person should have...

You don’t fight the battles you know you will win, its the ones that everyone says you will lose.

i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.

Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.

You’re most powerful where your passion is

If you’re not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn’t choose.

He’s done a great job. And there’s more of it to come. He’s a terrific talent.