“I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.” WayYearsTwoFeelingsWantedOpportunityTalentTwo YearsNavyLet It GoDamesNotre Dame Author:Regis Philbin
“You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.” ThinkingMenTwoLastsArtistTalentPaintingPainterMuseBrushesTrios Author:Robert Breault
“We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.” TwoEnergyClassTalentStylePersonalityWasteIntroversionDevalueClass System Author:Susan Cain
“I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people” PeopleThinkingTwoSometimesGrowsParentTalentUnionsSingersToneDeaf Author:Joely Fisher
“There are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment.” TwoDifferentVirtueTalentApproachManagementMethodRecruitment Author:John Gibbons
“I myself have not met a self‐confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the “typical liberal” — as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.” TwoSelfMightClassMiddleTalentMetsLateWestMiddle ClassTypicalPlagueDinosaursGloomyUnicornAnnouncingPestsTacky Author:Wilfrid Sheed
“When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.” IfsSaidTwoEarthAcceptingSunTalentBearsKingsThousandTenDividesAsiaDarius Book:Essays Source: Essays
“For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn't done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks. Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn't more deserving than they were. I wasn't smarter or a better person. What was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.” HumansPersonsTwoDoneDreamAmericaNationsBornDifferencesBreakGenerationsTalentCitizensSucceedAmbitionMy FamilySmarterHuman HistoryDeservingBetter PersonShort Time Book:An American Son: A Memoir Source: An American Son: A Memoir