Fear Quote by James Lee Burke

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

— Henry David Thoreau

It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.

— Walker Percy

To criticize a talent easier rather than to recognize him.

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Hesitancy is the surest destroyer of talent. One cannot be timorous and reticent, one must be original and loud. New metaphors, new rhythms, new…

— Stephen Dobyns

To be good to yourself ... Sometimes it seems that takes a special talent all its own.

— Lorna Landvik

Persistence and discipline. Without those two, you have nothing, no matter how talented you are.

— Alrick Brown

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

— Anatole France

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

— Martin Seligman

“Talent is being unabashedly and unapologetically fearless in the work that you do. The only difference between having talent and not having talent is…

— Gregor Collins

First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

— Joseph Addison