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

Money demands that you sell not your weakness to men's stupidity but your talent to their reason.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work they have the talent to put those men back to work.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Marriage requires a special talent like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

I really believe that everyone has a talent ability or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school I'm still learning all the time.

I'm interested in all forms of performance yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.

When I was 8 years old I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts and put me in a school.

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

There would not be enough talent that's educated developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen but that could be a weakness.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts their talents their insights their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge for it requires from its disciples composers and performers alike not only talent and enthusiasm but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent contacts knowledge - and do something different.

Since ancient times people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents knowledge and energy helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now after years of rebuilding our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport like the silver fox. It happens.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.