People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It’s their own little horror show that only they can deal with.
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.
There is a lot of talent in our slums.
Talent and skill goes out the window after eight or nine rounds.
This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.
No WWE talent becomes a legend on their own.
I am shocked and deeply saddened by McQueen’s death. He was a genius, and his talent was second to none. Like many others, I always cited him as a hugely inspirational leader of world fashion. He will be greatly missed.
I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.
Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
There’s talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.
In my opinion, he has very special abilities. He has talent and he always manages to show it on the pitch. He always has the instinct to make the right decision. He uses his speed well against the opponents he plays. He has a strong finish. All in all, no one else has as much quality as Lionel Messi.
For the amount of talent I had – and I couldn’t dance, act, or tell a joke – I enjoyed a tremendous career.
I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart into it, I am instantly into him. I like a strong man who can be in control and make decisions but who is sensitive and attentive. That is the perfect combination.
It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada.
I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
Countries which favour openness and the mobility of skilled talent secure the development of more diverse and culturally rich work environments, a higher level of innovation, as well as entrepreneurship and wider international networks.
The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Talent alone doesn’t matter in this industry, and everyone knows this. If someone says, ‘Good films are done’, ‘Talent always survives’, there are other factors, too, which are far more important.
Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
Every person walking has some kind of talent that they can get on tape.
God gives you talent to nurture. God gives you talent to be something. Some people realize it and some people don’t.
I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
I have no talent. I have nothing to offer.
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle – that of obedience to their superiors.
Everyone liked me when I went up on the stage at a talent search in elementary school, and that’s when I decided to become a music artist.
Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.
There’s talent everywhere; we just have to make technology accessible to them.
You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that’s what it comes back to.
I think that acting could be a talent.
Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
It is often said there is a great deal of talent in the Conservative Parliamentary Party. This is true, but too many of the brightest and best remain on the backbenches.
When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
To me, Celine is unrivaled, and Hedi Slimane has such a multifaceted talent – from clothing design to photography. He creates this rare, incredible, and desirable world through his vision. I’m always inspired by his work.
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
I don’t think there’s any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
I have been playing professionally since I was 18 at right-back. To get to your first World Cup and probably not playing in your preferred position, where you want to showcase your talent, is not disappointing, but it is like, ‘OK, it is a little bit of a step back.’
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
If you want to win the Champions League, you have to have talent, good players, luck in the draw, and, in certain moments, the right referee.
LinkedIn is increasingly becoming a very strong place for companies to develop their talent plans, their recruitment plans, and so there are ways in which we can track some of the momentum there.
Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.
I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team’s players.
My talent lies in my hard work.
You can never have enough talent.
Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world.
I think it’s important to make clear, you know, that the problem with American soccer… it isn’t talent.
When you are an elite talent, you cannot allow anyone that comes into your ‘eliteness’ and take you down. You have to make them rise to your level.
I don’t have the talent, the temperament, or the patience to be a great chef. I’d much rather order from someone who can really do it. I love restaurants. They make my life better.
I think it’s true for men and for women, if you are even remotely attractive, people will assume you’re just another pretty face and you don’t have the work ethic or the talent to put in the time to flesh out a career.
I try not to pay attention to talk of comparisons. I only want to focus on myself. It is good to hear that people are talking like that, but the truth is I am not at Cruyff’s level of talent, and I never will be, so it is not something I think about.
Hollywood has a way of sucking the world’s talent to it.
I’m fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.
I know it’s a cliche. But, like, literally, I want to create an empire of dozens of talent under me to take my power and multiply it so that I become bigger than myself.
It takes little talent to see what lies under one’s nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
But I don’t think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don’t have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
As you can probably tell, the push to develop talent in Africa is personal. I grew up there. I played there. I know how much talent there is. We have to concentrate on building facilities, establishing successful leagues and finding investors to help young players.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Like Juan Gabriel and Ana Gabriel, both singers and songwriters of legendary talent, Marco Antonio has reshaped a kind of Mexican romanticism. What he brings to pop music is the kind of songs that really talk to people’s hearts.
