“'Brand India' is built of 5 Ts - talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.” TechnologyTalentBuiltTraditionIndiaTradeBrandsGovernanceTourism Author:Narendra Modi
“Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. Hes built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it.” HardRunningPastOpportunityStarsAdviceTalentNeededFameBuiltReachingHallsLegendsReach OutAthleticSculptorsHall Of FameSeizing Author:Don Yaeger
“Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear.” PlaySchoolDifficultAbilityTalentMissingPositionProductsBearsAchievementEuropeBuiltProgramFingersExtraordinaryTechniqueContemporaryHallsDemonstrationPhenomenalPianistCarnegieChristinaEarly LifeRecitalsChromeJuilliardStockhausen Author:Donal Henahan
“I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.” WritingTalkingTalentDevilBuiltLettersHollywoodSundayDirtJerryFilth Author:Mickey Rooney
“The idea of a star being born is bushwa. A star is created, carefully and cold-bloodily, built up from nothing, from nobody. Age, beauty, talent, least of all talent, has nothing to do with it. We could make silk purses out of sows' ears every day of the week.” IdeasAgeStarsBornWeekTalentColdBuiltEarsPursesSilkDays Of The Week Author:Louis B. Mayer
“I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.” ThinkingKnowsHappenedStageTalentBuiltManagementBe GoodDrills Author:Gwendoline Christie
“I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.” TalentBuiltShoulders Author:Michael Jordan
“Wayne Gretzky's talent doesn't come from studying everything he's experienced in hockey and making long-term game plans. It comes from constantly taking in all the data that's happening in the moment on the ice, and instantly generating constant predictions based on super-efficient mental models he's built in his head. Technology has to work more like Gretzky.” LongMomentsGamesTermTechnologyStudyPlansTalentModelsHappeningsBuiltConstantIceDataLong TermHockeyEfficientPredictionsWayneGame PlanGretzky Author:Kevin Maney