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Executives are afraid of losing control if subordinates try to roam too far. Conversely, hierarchy squelches talent by forcing rote standardization through the punishment of failure, a necessary accompaniment to experimentation.

Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.

Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

Far too many people spend a lifetime headed in the wrong direction. They go not only from the cradle to the cubicle, but then to the casket, without uncovering their greatest talents and potential.

First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

Find your own 'sweet spot'. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them.

Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent

For me, it is the worst kind of sacrilege if you are given some of special talent and you don't take advantage of this gift.

For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.

For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.

For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed them, and turn them to social account.

For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree.

Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power and talents are not necessary to the person of a Freemason. An unblemished character and a virtuous conduct are the only qualifications for admission into the Order.

For what I have accomplished and what I have become, I have to to thank my industry much more, my indefatigable working, rather than any outstanding talent.

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

Friday was added to my nickname because I have a talent of getting on with most people. So it's a bit of a man Friday thing.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.

F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

God gives everyone the same amount of talent. It's just up to you to korek (dig).

God gave Davie Cooper a talent. He would not be disappointed with how it was used

Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?

God has given you talents and opportunities. Seize them today -- not tomorrow.

God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea.

God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find.

Good attitude is most important. Good talent is second.

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

God isn't a talent scout looking for someone who is "good enough" or "strong enough." He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

Good writing comes from good talent.

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent!