That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don’t know something are no...

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

It don’t matter about all that anyway,” Armstrong added. “You think it do, but it don’t. A man ain’t just his one talent. Lil Louis needs you. And Jones look to you like you his...

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I’m optimistic.

Hugh consoled me, saying, “Don’t let it get to you. There are plenty of things you’re good at.”When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come...

In all four years of high school, not once did I make the football team. The other part of the story is that I never even tried out. Just raw talent, I guess.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically he studied the scores of the great masters. At the end of the...

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us… but they’re still fucking psychopaths.

I think that they’ve just got some talent going to Lenoir-Rhyne from this area. And to be coming from South Central really means a lot to us. I think that with the young coaches teaching...

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

We had to do it also because of the talent level of the player that we received,

…talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don’t think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it’s not going down like that. I cant even see...

Listen,” Mac interrupted, “you still have to knock it out of the park. But it’s a degree-of-difficulty thing. You’re doing a triple lutz and she’s skating. You’re the Sasha Cohen here.

‘Just think of a safe location.’ ‘Are there tennis balls in the soup?’ ‘Come on, be serious.’ ‘A pear camping highway fire mask,’ he said, more intensely. My heart rate, which had finally started slowing,...

You could tell this is a team that’s ready to get the season over. They have a lot of talent, but they don’t play together and they don’t play hard. Mentally, those guys are ready...

A person’s willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards,

I know how you feel. But people can’t surpass their true design. Our talents, our gifts. All programmed into us from the start. I know this because since birth… I was made to destroy.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

Mr Humphry Davy is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist…

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

There’s a genius in everyone. It’s either asleep or awake

Take 5″ is the practice if spending 5 minutes a day giving focused attention to your hopes for your talent.

Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.

It’s a good sign in the face of all these tech cuts, … I’ll bet they can really access great talent right now. To bring that many people into the company when pickings are really...

I think that the most important thing a woman can have- next to talent, of course- is her hairdresser.

But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than from the faculty of transforming and transposing them. To heat a liquid with...

An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas...

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He’d say, ‘It doesn’t take any talent to do that.’

Annoying people is something of a talent of mine. I gave it up for a while, but lately it’s started to come back to me.

You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it’s up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time.

But sometimes, talent isn’t worth shit. There are tons of talentless people out there making zillions of dollars. And unfortunately, an equal number of brilliant artists whose name and voices you’ll never hear. – Paul...

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What’s a sundial in the shade?

Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible,...

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

J.R.R. Tolkien tells a story of a man who was better at painting leaves than trees. In fact, the leaves he painted were painstaking and exquisite. He continued to feel a pull to make his...

[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

For growth to happen it is necessary to get your BUT out of the way.

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

I can cook really complicated recipes, but it takes a real talent to do the perfect egg.

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...