There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
I have always had a flair for acting; maybe that's why I enjoyed casting so much.
I'm always going to talent scout and try to find new artists to work with.
A most highly multiplying trait in point of far-reaching influences is that of ability to discover and use strong men. This trait stands out impressively in Rothschild's 'Lincoln, Master of Men'.
I've always had a fortunate knack for grabbing young talent and giving them a break.
People study and play sports side by side. So, most of the talent exists in schools and universities.
There is a big emphasis at Liverpool to have an academy that brings through young players.
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.
I do a little bit of acting, but I wouldn't call myself an actor.
We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.
I have an eye for new and refreshing talent.
My first ambition was to be a show jumper. I did a bit of dressage as part of it, and the dressage trainer saw me and said, 'Why are you wasting your time with the other stuff? You should be concentrating on this.'
Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.
When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
A very high bar has been set with Robert Downey in 'Iron Man.' That idea was, find the best actor for the part, regardless of whether they've been in a movie like this before.
I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.
My whole life I've tried to find the thing I can do that other people can't do, and invest in that, and the one thing I can do is write narratives and build characters. I can do that.
History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess.
I think we have very good facilities for the youth in Holland. We have very good youth coaches and I think that is some of the reasons that always Holland has very good football players.
From United's point of view, it is always difficult to tell just when a young footballer is going to mature into a first-class professional ready to play at the highest level, but the story of how Pogba slipped away from United has more than one strand to it.
You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.
You never know where you're going to find a great actor.
There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
Obviously, everyone looks at whether we bring young footballers into the first team, that's one of the goals. But I wouldn't discard someone who is successful in life, that's big. The hall of fame in the academy should be a wide variety of stories.
Regions' role in detecting and developing a raw talent is no secret, as they work so hard to produce top class players who go on to represent departments, then national team, and also play in different leagues of the world.
