Pastoral Resources

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.

I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're talking about Gary and myself, we have a God-given talent, but we worked at it and we're happy to be where we are today.

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.