Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

There's a ton of talent in this country. Some just need to be given a shot.

It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.

There are such pretty faces and so many more talents and people with more potential, but they never get their chance because they are not at the right place at the right time.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

I always knew that there were huge opportunities for me, and that I had a lot of potential to do a lot of different things, but I also knew it was about my execution and my application of skills.

Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.

Here is a fine field for talent.

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

It is clear I have enough qualities to be in the starting XI of Liverpool. But when you never get a real chance, it's difficult.

Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.

Just because someone lives in a hut, that doesn't mean that isn't a good person, that that person can't do better, that person isn't capable of being great. And just because it's a hut - whatever that means - doesn't mean it's not a home.

Anyone can achieve it if they're given the opportunity to.

You have more potential than you think.

The bible does not say that a man's education makes room for him, but that his gifts does. Education is not the key to success, it doesn,t guarantee anything; it is your gift that is the key to success

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

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

I don't look for people who have achieved great things; I look for people who will achieve great things.

Genius is power, talent is applicability.