- Nov 07, 2020
Talent Quotes
On gifts, hard-won skill, and where talent gets spent.
These quotes treat talent as both a private gift and a public resource, one dancer describing ballet as a sacred calling, another noting how so much top talent flows into finance and law instead of helping marginalized children. See Best quotes for related themes.
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- Apple
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are times when we have to add resources to Apple, grow talent to do something that we weren't able to do before.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ursula Nordstrom was famous for finding artists in unlikely places. Maurice Sendak was a window designer, and she just came across one of his windows. Everyone was looking to find a talent.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was offered some film roles, and I did not do them. It would have been interesting, but I have no regrets. I am where I am; I accept and embrace the mistakes because they're character-building and they build perspective and talent.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably, if I created a venture fund, I would create a firm with virtual services not too different from the a16z model, but without employing people. So I would get CPOs, engineering talent, marketing people who wanted to be involved with the venture fund and provide services.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.
- Impressive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was impressed by the capability and talent and intellect of our troops on the ground. These kids are really impressive.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've always been into God. We feel we are blessed. That's part of our success. I mean, apart from the chemistry and the talent, we are blessed. I don't think it can happen without God.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020