Identifying Talent Quotes

#1. A combination of unrealistic goals, unnecessarily pessimistic expectations, and the wrong incentives for teachers contributes to ensure that education systems in developing countries fail their two main tasks: giving everyone a sound basic set of skills, and identifying talent.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#2. I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.

Orhan Pamuk

#3. In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis.

Nouriel Roubini

#4. There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

Daniel Radcliffe

#5. I'm afraid of losing myself. The idea was a splinter in my mind. Always there, always stinging, even when I wasn't conscious of it. Even when I wasn't thinking about it.

Michelle Hodkin

#6. Pete's voice. "You

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#7. We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.

David Brooks

#8. Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.

James Hutton

#9. The next hour was three hours long

Raymond Chandler

#10. The reverse is a system in which you basically let people who were leaders in one way or another - people sometimes decried as party bosses, people who are part of special interests make the decision. And I think that's a worse system than the one we have.

Geoffrey Cowan

#11. When you feel small in a God made world, it's called realization and when you feel small in a man made world, it's called exploitation.

Girish Kohli