Francois Rene de Chateaubriand Quotes

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.

My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

Great talents appear whenever the social conditions favorable to their development exist. This means that every man of talent who actually appears, every man of talent who becomes a social force, is the product of social relations.

It's not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Conte is correct - talent needs to be nurtured on a daily basis with hard work.

That is the great thing about Impact - they care about each individual talent and everything that we put out on TV has a lot of thought and time put into it.

When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.

I have many unrecognized talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition.

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.