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“There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.”

Needs Kind Has Beens Country Ability Space Talent Produce Improvement Our Country Initiative

Author:John W. Thompson

“No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.”

Ifs World Feels May Art Matter Talent Produce Skills Deprived

Author:Derek R. Audette

“One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.”

Dream Differences Effort Greater Talent Fields Produce Commitment Rewards Pursue Persistence Consistent Endeavor Enthusiastic Over The Top Patience And Persistence

Book:Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

Source: Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

“As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth.”

Way Seems Failing Talent Produce Expected Providence

Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

“Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the meeting is sufficient to paralyze conversation. The women invariably herd together at one part of the room, and the men at the other ... The gentlemen spit, talk of elections and the price of produce, and spit again. The ladies look at each other's dresses till they know every pin by heart.”

Knows Men Looks Heart May Persons Together Form Rooms Talent Produce He Man Shapes Conversation Election Dresses Meetings Gentleman Sufficient Arrangements Pins Herds Spit American Society

Author:Frances Trollope

“By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.”

“People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.”

People Inspirational Helping Given Sound Music Talent Produce Musician Instruments Musical Tunes Magnificent Emanate Musical Instruments

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.”

Matter Whole Beautiful Talent Produce Amount Genius Integrity Originals Latter Fragments Integrating Fertile Original Thought

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.”

Ifs Whole Progress Team Talent Produce Intelligent Blind Ignorant Behaviour Committees Narrow-minded Duplicate

Author:Daniel Dennett

“There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.”

Talent Produce Creating Artificial Frivolous

Book:Notebooks, 1951-1959

Source: Notebooks, 1951-1959

“Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.”

Source: The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

“In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.”

Believe Country Wealth Poverty Virtue Talent Produce Highest Vices Advancement

Author:Denis Diderot

“I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.”

Believe Art Artist Energy I Believe Easy Modern Talent Produce Serious Favors Impulse Just One Comparison Phenomenon Rejecting Small Parts Time And Energy

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.”

Believe Play Character Used Quality Situation Player Impossible Heard Talent Produce Used To Be Fantastic France Idols Impossible Situations

Author:Michel Patini

“When you're a young talent, and you want to launch your brand, you always have tons of questions: Where should I produce? Should I launch a second line? Should I do shoes, accessories? If you have someone who can coach you and give you advice and help you find the right supplier, it's a big help.”

Ifs Want Giving Should Helping Bigs Young Lines Advice Talent Produce Shoes Coaches Brands Should I Accessories Suppliers Young Talent

Author:Delphine Arnault

“Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity.”

People Self Hands Individual Progress Talent Produce Dignity Prosperity Communism Elites Manipulate Distinctive

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent, American government, often initiated by talent scouts specially sent over here to buy British brains and preempt them for service of the U.S.A. ... I look forward earnestly to the day when some reform of the American system of school education enables them to produce their own scientists so that, in an aimiable free trade of talent, there may be adequate interchange between our country and theirs, and not a one-way traffic.”