The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their talent, discipline their talent and type their talent. And then they were told they might as well forget about talent.
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Related You know how people have a talent and they want to share it? That was her thing. She gave of her tim... CATHY POOLE We've scouted Central Catholic twice and they've changed their system from last season. They've move... STACEY REED Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work. PROVERB Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work. FRENCH PROVERB They've changed their offense because of those freshmen. They really needed to upgrade their speed a... DONTE WHITNER My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to ... AARON LAZAR You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court un... NANCY GRACE Companies recruiting for growth can't risk losing their best talent to competitors. They must also r... ALLAN SCHWEYER The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, w... SEAN PARKER At one point, we had a father and two sons on a porch, and they were having a barbecue, and they tol... JOSEPH DEFILLIPO The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. JOHANN VON GOETHE The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE No record... can... name the women of talent who were so submerged by child-bearing and its duties, ... ANNA GARLIN SPENCER They received their orders, they snapped their heels, and they did as they were told, didn’t they?... MILES O'BRIEN Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if ... SHINICHI SUZUKI I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. SUSANNA KAYSEN The players responded really well. They were in a bad situation. Our players never quit. I told them... JOEL ELLIOTT Most salespeople would like to think of themselves as being rock stars, but they don't display t... JEFFREY GITOMER I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me t... TRAVIS BARKER Marvel is run by some very smart people, and they seem to pride themselves on the fact that they don... KELLY SUE DECONNICK I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself... RAHUL DRAVID It wasn't a question of if I was doing it. I was doing it. They told my mother I had talent and she ... JANE CHOC Any time you get kids to work as hard as they are and showcase their talent, it's exciting. The kids... TOM NOLAN What they told me ... is they feel they were justified in their actions and they were using the amou... DAVID BENELLI Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. MAYA ANGELOU Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely ne... BOB BECKEL I never doubted my talent. If talent was the circus, then I was its ringmaster and audience, applaud... PHILIP SCHULTZ By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority. SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS The girl clones at Singer Grove were just like the ones in Texas; they knocked themselves out to be ... E.L. KONIGSBURG Their (Montrose) talent level is so high. They have some Division I players so you expect them to pe... AHMAD DORSETT If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i... DAVID CASSIDY They took the time to write about themselves, their families, their school. All of the letters were ... BRUCE NICOLETTA I don't think they were going to allow their team lose. We told our kids they were going to come aft... RAY STAVER Several people told us they wanted the (alligator) caught because they were afraid to let their dogs... DAVID SELBY Thirteen of the 14 past graduates came back for graduation this year to accept their scholarship cer... DEAN CHASE ...slow and steady wins the race, till truth and talent claim their place. B.J. NOVAK Russia's got a lot of young guys, guys excited to win their first gold medal. It doesn't always matt... DARCY HORDICHUK Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the t... ANDRA DAY My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe... MICHAEL JORDAN There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural ta... DAVID WELLS Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. MAYA ANGELOU I think people were promised they would be able to get all their drugs they require. But they weren'... VICKI GOTTLICH Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity pre... BRUCE MARTON I think their potential scares us the most. I still think they have the talent to be one of the top ... KAMERION WIMBLEY The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, ... MILTON GLASER The nascent talent management market will continue to experience consolidation, defining market lead... JASON CORSELLO They have to know they can ask for it if they want it or need it. People weren't being told about wh... LOIS KANTER Singing and music was my only talent. I've been blessed with this talent. I'm quite pleased with how... JASON MRAZ What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create thei... SUNDAY ADELAJA We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army. JIM TALENT The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now... JIM TALENT The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. ... JIM TALENT Governor Romney is a good debater. JIM TALENT The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnationa... JIM TALENT American businesses are likely to spend at least $50 billion fixing Y2K computer glitches, JIM TALENT I will come with independence and a fresh perspective. I have life experience and public servant exp... JIM TALENT that has forgotten the real problems that people in Houston face. JIM TALENT There are people walking around guilty of murder. JIM TALENT The home next door may be making methamphetamine. They make it in cars and vans. JIM TALENT I'm not holding my breath waiting for anything. We're going ahead with what we think we need to do o... JIM TALENT This may in the minds of predators create a loophole, and I think we should try and plug that loopho... JIM TALENT Despite the heroic efforts on the local level by our sheriffs and our chiefs and our deputies and ou... JIM TALENT I think we're being played for a bunch of suckers, ... chumps. JIM TALENT When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector. JIM TALENT It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes ... JIM TALENT General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling S... JIM TALENT If one of these links in a small business' supply-and-demand chain is broken due to a computer syste... JAMES TALENT We're still seeing what the courts are doing with the current law, ... What I wanted to do with this... JAMES TALENT If we're not willing to look back into the past to find out the truth about what happened, we really... JAMES TALENT The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnationa... JAMES TALENT I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage. JAMES TALENT The President's budget represents a starting point for what is certain to be a long debate in the Co... JAMES TALENT If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women... JAMES TALENT The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now... JAMES TALENT We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army. JAMES TALENT Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the govern... JAMES TALENT They were dancing in the streets, holding up their purple fingers. They were so proud and they were ... DAN GREGG It's ridiculous, how people judge talent. Or, rather, don't judge. They just default to what everyon... SIOBHAN VIVIAN You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's n... DONALD TRUMP There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives. DAVID CASSIDY It grows the talent pool. It encourages employees looking from California, Seattle or Boston when... LARRY WARNOCK I would put this team on a level with those Oregon City teams (of the 1990s) that were ranked No. 1 ... DAVID HEARD We are out there to showcase their talent and see what other teams have to offer. ELIDA BALBOA They were playing hard. They have some talent on that team. They haven't given up. They were very ag... BRIAN WINTERS So they told us all about how other kids were deceived by their parents, how the toys the grown-ups ... JEANNETTE WALLS Man was more effective, we were stopping their back cuts. But deep threes. Hey, we were told to get ... ANTHONY KING Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you n... H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you n... H. JACKSON BROWN JR. I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. Y... FACUNDO PIERES Well, lo and behold, the greatest thing that ever happened in my life, a month later Alvin Cooperman... RICHARD FOREMAN I like the direction the team was going. I like a lot of their young talent. HAVING KHABIBULIN Genius and stupidity never stray from their respective paths; talent wanders to and fro, following e... GEORGE MOORE (SDSU) has terrific talent. Slaughter and Heath were terrific. We could not stop Heath. Give them cr... DALE LAYER Their will always be people who will try to use your talent to promote their dreams, Stamp on them a... YUSUF YAHAYA There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have t... PEARL BAILEY Many people view leadership the same way they view success, hoping to go as far as they can, to clim... JOHN C. MAXWELL I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in... F. GARY GRAY We talked at the end of last year and I told him he had the talent. He was our catalyst and deserved... KEVIN ALKIRE
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