#talent

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#clutter #dropping #gets #had #i

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy. ↗

— Norman Reilly Raine

#fat #grows #his #like #otherwise

You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye. ↗

— Charlotte Rae

#minutes #producers #public #show #take

During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#company #during #encompassing #ever #fifteen

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anyone #caprice #fates #inoculated #intelligence

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#concerts #entertainers #entertainment #funny #gifted-people

Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #languages #polyglots #questionnaires #talents

One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like products. While every Macintosh model has had flaws (some more than others), most of them have has a sexiness and a design sensibility that has turned many consumers into instant converts. Macintosh owners upgrade far more often than most computer users for precisely this reason.” (p.98) ↗

— Seth Godin

#macintosh #medusa #steve-jobs #talent #upgrade

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves. ↗

— Ken Robinson

#education #human-resources #meaning-of-life #talent #education

My mother always told me that there is only one way a woman can be truly safe in this world. And that is to be fiercely, inarguably, and masterfully talented. This is different than being intelligent or even educated. (Satomi from Picking Bones From Ash) ↗

— Marie Mutsuki Mockett

#woman #education