Sentences with phrase «than talent»

If you want to reach the lofty heights of your favorite dining experiences, then you need more than talent.

I only find it a bit lazy that everything happened to unfold as it did and covering it all was really a matter of luck rather than talent.

In the work environment, I'd argue that consistency is even more important than talent.

I was as a singer much as I was as an athlete: more enthusiasm than talent.

Just can't get over a name, and at this point in his career graham's name is bigger than his talent.

Their testimony was obviously more highly valued than their talent.

The quality is, in my opinion, a more decisive factor than the talent after a certain point of development, and it is encouraging that he already has this in place.

Learn whether market conditions have a greater impact on the success of active managers than talent or costs.

There's more to success than talent and a track record.

Resume writing is more a skill than a talent.

The idea that women, or minorities, should be chosen by virtue of identity rather than talent is deeply offensive.

Why he needs them: To be the best takes more than talent and technique.

I think the hype was bigger than the talent.

At an age when the latter displayed little more than a talent for teenage rebellion, Guston was already a fine draughtsman.

Wenger is tight, arrogant and annoying but there is more money than talent in football right now.

I agree but he was still used wrongly, demotivated by being played out of his proper position and rightly, having more ambition than talent, keen to play under a proper manager, as he now is.

As for Team Apuli — they match up with Team Kozin better than most as Team Kozin's size shouldn't bother them and they too are seeded lower than their talent level and play would indicate.

Either your QB or another game - changer veteran gives you a hometown deal or you hit on draft picks and build a better roster than money could buy because you have a price - controlled young player / set of players that allows you to spend less money than the talent is worth.

Even better than talent and practise, our writers have strong academic knowledge spanning virtually all fields of modern education.

The actors are cast based more on looks than talent, the special effects are (if nothing else) well - rendered, and there is a kinetic energy produced by the hard - driving rock soundtrack and music video - style editing — surface pleasures strictly for people that don't want to have to think while watching their schlocky, b - movie fare.

There are many ways to use these three practices, but, in the end, memorizing depends more on small, focused acts of repetition than any talent or technique.

If you wanted to argue that he is not a coach who can get players to play at a level higher than their talent or get the most out of his guys, then I would probably agree, but he has been a good or solid coach over his career.

Offensively, the Patriots will try to run the ball, more through discipline than talent.

As someone who has served on a hiring panel, I have to say that having only two interviews for a position says way more about the company (shit) than the talent pool.

But there's a difference between losing and getting embarrassed, and we have gotten outplayed by a much wider margin than the talent gap between these two teams.

And NTs are often drafted lower than their talent suggests due to limited usage.

It's just baseball, where players» salaries are determined more by circumstance than talent.

Cars and money matter more than talent now.

However, Messi's message is more to do with humility than talent or hard work.

The fools (read Chelsea) have no real talent scouts... wait for the real scouts to come up with a popular choice and then table bids greater than the talent can command (read Torres / Hazard / Oscar....

This tale of a software writer who discovers the success of his Bill Gates - like boss and menor may be based more on treachery than talent, is unfortunately degenerates from topical drama to ludicrous thriller.

Beginning in the early 1990's with the explosion of shows like Entertainment Tonight, high profile film critics, satellite & 24 hour cable television, stylists, famous gown and jewelry designers, it's more about glamour, notoriety and popularity than talent.

Some are prodigies, kids as young as 10 bashing out Rachmaninov, others have more love for music than talent: one particular middle - aged lady makes jokes about her tone - deafness which almost makes her devotion all the more impressive.

Wielding more gumption than talent, Rose is determined to have her daughter June be the star of a musical comedy Vaudeville act.

You've got too much talent being funneled into something that is just like a smaller container than the talent.

It may be the sign of excellent direction more than talent at such a tender age, but Onata Aprile gives a superb performance as Maisie.

As director, he trips through gory gags and gallows humor with more tenacity than talent, while onscreen he mugs shamelessly.

The mad rush of power, abetted by the new turbos, is difficult to comprehend; learn to modulate the throttle, lest you enter corners with more speed than talent or tire.

Jarrell, a poet much less famous than his talent deserved, wrote this satirical novel after spending time teaching at Sarah Lawrence College.

Due to levels looking beautiful but crowded at high speeds it becomes difficult to see things coming, especially as the course design loves to throw last second obstacles at you making this more of a reaction based racer rather than a talent based racer.

Leveling by any other criteria than talent could lead you by the wrong way.

In a recent New York Times op - ed, President of the Ford Foundation Darren Walker critiqued America's current culture of unpaid internships — which he believes creates a system where «contacts and money matter more than talent [and] contributes to an economy in which access and opportunity go to the people who already have the most of both.»

Your direct value is attributed more to resilience and willingness to do menial tasks at 2 am on a Saturday than your talent or ability.

Sure, we've had our fair share of chuckles at the expense of Ferrari Challenge, as there can be a huge disparity between the fast front of the field and those with more cash than talent.

In families, sometimes we accidentally allow our flaws to become more pervasive than our talents, this pattern can be changed through having conversations about the best of each family member and what each family would like to see the family become.

«There s no doubt in my mind that my success has more to do with luck than talent, more to do with stubbornness than vision, more to do with ignorance than insight, but the fact remains that I pursued my dream and attained it against staggering odds.

The film shifts back and forth through Goodbody's confused service with the sweetly stupid and misguidedly cocky upper - class twit of a college boy, promoted to officer by virtue of class rather than any talent, intelligence or aptitude for leadership, periodically turning to the audience to spin a narrative that has little to do with the incompetence and tomfoolery onscreen.

The Red Devils boss fared best at Porto and Inter Milan where his sides were not fancied as Champions League contenders, but his battling sides were able to achieve far more than the talent in their squad suggested they could.