Talent
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.
Give, give, give — what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Long ago, I realized that my only talent — aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women — can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.
I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.
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