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Talent

«Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.»
Author: Dylan Thomas (Playwright, Poet, Writer) | About: Talent | Keywords: diminish, upset
«Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.»
Author: Henry Van Dyke (Essayist, Poet, Writer) | About: Talent | Keywords: birds, possess, sang, silent, talents, woods
«Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt»
Author: Shirley Chisholm (Politician) | About: Talent | Keywords: amounts, skirt, tremendous
«We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.»
«True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.»
Author: John W. Gardner (Secretary, Writer) | About: Happiness, Talent | Keywords: One Power
«Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.»
Author: John Wooden | About: Character, Talent, Winning | Keywords: repeat, winning
«Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.»
«What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.»
«We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work»
«When a man's talk is commonplace and his writings uncommon, it means that his talent lies in the place from which he borrows it, and not in himself»