I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play.
When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.
Talent emerges over the course of a lifetime of reciprocal interactions between the developing brain and a stimulating environment.
I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
Im not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.
The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.
Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.
Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.
I'm always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.
I've met some real talents that were. . . real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people. People like Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, to a certain extent Jim Steranko, who is an institution all to himself. What a talent. What a genius talent.
An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
Along with the talent, you also need direction.