Given Quote by Dennis Potter Download Open image “I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.” — Dennis Potter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Given Obligation Responsibility Talent Use
I've been given a gift [musical talent] - don't misuse it. I spent a lot of time just wasting that talent, not treasuring it,… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
I have been given a gift of this talent, and I use it for God's glory. That's pretty much it. — Scottie Scheffler Copy Share Image
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something. — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music...… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color. — Al Capp Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image