As one of New York's finest governors, Smith showed his greatest talent in his ability to pick talented advisers.
One of Peter's great gifts of statesmanship was the ability to pick talented collaborators for the highest appointments, whether from the foremost families of the nobility or from far lower levels of society.
They have since turned the Young Guns into a bigger, formal group, working with the National Republican Congressional Committee to pick talented congressional candidates.The Young Guns is not, perhaps, a brilliant name for a political group.
Mr. Griffin is not only famous for buying assets cheaply, he is also known for picking off talented workers.
And he picks extraordinarily talented people to run his shows".
Caracas have put their emphasis on youth, either developing their own players or picking up talented youngsters from elsewhere.
Trump called his U.N. pick "very talented, very smart and very quick" as he spoke to reporters in front of the White House, praising her work at the State Department.
Armed with cap room, a wealth of upcoming draft picks and talented young big men Jahlil Okafor and Nerlens Noel, the 76ers and Colangelo might be able to climb out of what seems like a perpetual rebuild.
Another was that the large increase in people studying at university meant it was harder to use a period of higher education to pick out really talented individuals.
It has enabled "coaches and sporting associations to pick out talented athletes and train them to be world-beaters".
