"You can't teach talent. You can't put in……" — Gloria Naylor
"You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence."
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Gloria Naylor
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28 Quotes by Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor has 28 quotes on this site.
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I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life…
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Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.
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Life is accepting what is and working from that.
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One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire…
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Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to…
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Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places,…
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Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.
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Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.
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Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes…
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There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story.…
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Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
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The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people,…
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More Confidence Quotes
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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
— Pietro Aretino
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to…
— Aristotle
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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
— Aristotle
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
— Mary Kay Ash
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
— Arthur Ashe
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the…
— Jane Austen
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I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
— Lauren Bacall
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When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It…
— Lauren Bacall
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
— Richard Bach
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
— Ansel Adams
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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