Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India, saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech: that everyone will come to us. Wake up: Because the numbers are showing money and talent is increasingly going elsewhere.
Someone asked me about what's it like managing 2.2 million associates, and I said, 'When they're Wal-Mart associates, it's not all that hard because of the quality and the depth of our talent.' I'm really proud of the fact that 70% of the managers in the U.S. started as hourly associates with our company.
Basketball talent is basketball talent, no matter if it comes from the suburbs or the city. Take the time to know and understand me before you judge me. Only God can do that. Roses do grow from concrete!
For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.
The core concept of Samasource is essentially that technology helps us unlock human talent wherever it may happen to reside. That we should no longer be victims of the birth lottery. That no one should be stuck in a poor place where they don't have a job simply because of an accident of birth.
When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls.
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Concealed talent brings no reputation.
There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.
Art depends on luck and talent.
I haven't seen 'The Revenant,' but I'm sure it was great because it has a lot of talent involved.
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.
You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.
The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.
Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.
Jacksonville has exceptionally good talent in the areas of modality activities.
I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.
I'm very comfortable with the idea of there being late bloomers, and for me, of course, there's no difficulty at all in the way that I think of talent and achievement and so on.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.
When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.'
Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.
It is very important to highlight the young talent of India.
I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.
I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.
Hard work beats talent, and I live by that.
I may not know everything about physical talent or anything like that, but I have a sharp mind when it comes to that look: being able to look into somebody's eyes to tell if they are going to be in the foxhole with you tonight, or if they are not.
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
I've always loved to perform in front of people, but it became pretty serious when I participated in 'Sweden's Got Talent.' I thought it would be a fun thing to do, and I was just like, 'OK, why not?' And Mom was like, 'OK, sure, sure, do this!' So I did, and I won it!
I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.
In 'The Interestings' I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.
I think that everybody's worked on shows where you feel like maybe a divide has happened between the talent and the crew. Those are the hardest jobs to do your best in, because as you're performing, you're aware that the people around you, because they haven't been afforded the respect that they deserve, they're not as invested.