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~ The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce ~ ~ What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. ~ ~ If a team is in a positive frame of mind, it will have a good attitude. If it has a good attitude, it will make a commitment to playing the game right. If it plays the game right, it will winóunless, of course, it doesn't have enough talent to win, and no manager can make goose-liver pate out of goose feathers, so why worry? ~ ~ Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. ~ ~ A shot glass of desire is greater than a pitcher of talent. ~ ~ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ~ ~ Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships. ~ ~ Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ~ ~ Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ~ ~ Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ~ ~ They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. ~ ~ There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. ~ ~ The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. ~ ~ Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent. ~ ~ Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations ~ ~ Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ~ ~ Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. ~ ~ If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. ~ ~ There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy. ~ ~ There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent. ~ ~ I believe talent is like electricity. We don`t understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no ~ ~ I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. ~ ~ Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent. ~ ~ A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. ~ ~ Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive. ~ ~ Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. ~ ~ The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ~ ~ Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. ~ |
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