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“A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that happens, but I'm sure it has an inner basis that is never learned.”

I Can Happens Certain Attention Audience Talent Demand Ears Bases Charisma Conductor

Author:Isaac Stern

“The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its appetite is satiated; these are the true measures of a colorist's talent.”

Needs Artist Ability Talent Color Demand Appetite Alertness

Book:Wolf Kahn: New Work, 1987-1989

Source: Wolf Kahn: New Work, 1987-1989

“The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.”

Men Needs Mind Children Body Desire Goal President Community Cities Quality Beauty Talent Demand Concerned Hunger Presidential Goods Quantity Commerce Great Society

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“If you run out of new ideas when you are very young, then it's a problem of talent; If you run out of new ideas when you get older, it may be that there's nothing left to say, or it may be that core ideas demand repeated attention.”

Ifs May Ideas Problem Running Young Left Attention Talent Demand Core New Ideas

Author:David Toop

“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.”

“Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.”

“Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.”

Wells Greater Talent Skills Demand Luck Seeking

Book:The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love

Source: The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love

“I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.”

Love Giving Years Share Talent Brother Band Demand Equal Giving Up Percent Originals Agree Partners My Brother Employee Reducing Drummer Love My Brother

Author:Rich Robinson

“A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.”

Wells Helping Talent Demand Musician Areas Making Money Publishing Well Rounded

Author:Bradley Joseph

“Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.”

Political Virtue Democracy Talent Republican Demand Superiors

Author:Simon Bolivar

“There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.”

Ability Struggle Rights Talent Media Demand Equal Victim Treatment Equal Rights Parasites Preferential Treatment

Author:Thomas Sowell

“When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs talent and expertise. But to be successful in his endeavor, he also needs to have the passionate feeling that he wants, at all costs, to create a work of art which, in his head, constantly demands to be accomplished. The same also applies to developing board games or card games.”

“Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.”

Enough Creativity Talent Demand

Author:Erica Jong