In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“hiring stars is advantageous neither to stars themselves, in terms of their performance, nor to hiring companies in terms of their market… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
To suddenly be a hero on a world basis was hard for me to understand. God gave me a gift. I got… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
My life has been a happy accident. Anybody who succeeds in anything should count their lucky stars, because that's the biggest element.… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
Ballet is a closed world and very rigid; MGM was a fairyland. You'd walk down the lot, seeing all these fabulous movies… — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
Well, I've admired Anil Kumble for making optimum use of his talent, loved the tenacity of Rahul Dravid, I say wow to… — Dinesh Karthik Copy Share Image
I have been blowing past the majority of my opponents, so people get the impression of me as an attacking, body punching,… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the… — Leon Edel Copy Share Image
Every kid thinks they have something special about themselves. Every adult thinks they have a big idea at some point in their… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
We're so screwed up with our principles. We used to mock Japanese game shows where they ate bugs. Now we're doing the… — Philip Glenister Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her… — Fritz Weaver Copy Share Image
“If careful attention is paid to the reality, we will see clearly, the real shortage is of the right skills, rather than… — Emi Iyalla Copy Share Image
Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance… James Davis's finely… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
For the outside world, it may seem easy to enter into the industry if you belong to a film family, but, trust… — Armaan Malik Copy Share Image
The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
“It's a talent I've developed-one thing I've learned recently. How to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
A girl in the middle years also becomes more centered in her soul-life, the feelings of her heart, and she needs our… — Jeanne Elium Copy Share Image
The songwriting community in Nashville really is all about your talent. It's not about your image, and you have to be humble.… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
There are "four keys" to becoming an excellent manager: finding the right fit for employees, focusing on strengths of employees, defining the… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I think any activity you have your kids in, you're all trying to live vicariously through them. And you're jealous of the… — Abby Lee Miller Copy Share Image
From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Working on 'Housewives' was very similar to 'Sex and the City.' Different cities, of course, but a high level of talent in… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
