The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse.
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow--by the tilt of the social landscape.
When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problemsâeven football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.
I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.
A career is born in publicâtalent in privacy.
It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Talent works, genius creates.
All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.
I do not want to die ... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
Competition is the whetstone of talent.
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world.
Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.