Quotes About Talent

A lot of freshmen will come in and say they can do what Carmelo did, but not everybody is Carmelo Anthony. He was a special player. Syracuse was a great fit for him.

I had an artistic streak and was good at painting and drawing and also very good at English, but I did want to be a scientist. The education system means you have to choose physics or Shakespeare. It can't be both.

It seems to me if we all just did what we're good at, the planet would average out to okay.

Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.

Just do what you do best.

In a country that values the ballroom dancing talents of washed-up actors, writers were less than afterthoughts.

Athletes are very cool to me.

Thus talent sometimes wishes to correct genius, as if the eaglet wished to teach the eagle to fly.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

Sometimes God gives us our gifts and we sit on them." He winked. "And that's a shame. You're very talented. When your desire becomes greater than your resistance, I look forward to seeing you among the greats. You have a nice day.

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

Son el revés del rey Midas, hay que ver el talento que tienen para convertir en mierda lo que tocan.

para todo hay genios en la viña del Señor.

Sentia atração pelo que se denomina tipos fracassados, disse. Mas, que é, disse, um fracassado? Um homem que não tem, talvez, todos os dons, mas muitos, inclusive bem mais do que os comuns em certos homens de sucesso. Tem esses dons, disse, e não os explora. Ele os destrói. De modo, disse, que na realidade destrói sua vida.

One good question and one good answer are services to all. A sure sign of a troubled company is one where employees don't care enough to ask and, if that's the case, they'll never care enough to fully deploy their talent. Just as curiosity is an antidote to boredom and indifference, the informed are more likely to remain interested, engaged, and alive with purpose.

Moreover, in my view, obtrusive and intrusive leadership becomes counterproductive by interfering with the free interplay of individual talent and interest.

We're in favor of a hierarchy of self-interest and talent and opposed to the symbols of power and control that come with it.

Companies hoping to recruit the best and the brightest must demonstrate that they trust their employees with the freedom to work anywhere. They must assume that they're buying talent and dedication, not what the Brazilians call "butt-on-chair time.

Nn omns qu habent citharam sunt citharoed.

Every task has a mental component to it. A lot of what we call talent is when people stumble upon these strategies easily.

Talent isn't just God-given. It's partially God-given; the other part is accessed by human beings insofar as they're able to teach each other.

The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's either in their DNA or it's not.

Actors and directors have written about it, psychologists, philosophers, social scientists, and even biologists have pondered it. What is acting, and how is it done? How does someone become someone else? Can someone become someone else? How much of what an actor does is due to that mysterious quality we call talent?