Cultivating Talent Quotes

Leadership is not just about giving energy ... it's unleashing other people's energy.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

We want to bring our own players through. That is what people like about Ajax.

If your child's gonna be a star it's going to happen and just let it happen.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

We don't sign superstars, we make them.

Mancini knows what he is doing. He has to put faith in the youth; otherwise, the country will never grow.