Talent Quotes (page 25)

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• love
• character
• world

The world loves talent but pays off on character. John W. Gardner

• energy
• little
• which

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. Anthony Burgess

• work
• people
• great

Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do. Warren Bennis

• bear
• imagination
• today

The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems... Alvin Toffler

• dark
• courage
• everyone

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. Erica Jong

• play
• people
• good

Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can be expressed. Well, I don't know. I can't do it. It's this sort of thing that makes me belittle the whole business: what's the good of a 'talent' if you can't do it when you want to? What should we think of a woodcarver who couldn't woodcarver? or a pianist who couldn't play the piano? Bah, likewise grrr. Philip Larkin

• earth
• effort
• thinking

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you. Natalie Goldberg

• light
• money
• consider

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented. Stephen King

• words
• two word
• valuable

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. Thomas Jefferson

• vacation
• any
• talents

I don't have any talent for vacations. Ann Patchett

• simple
• admirers
• my own

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated. John Barth

• grudge
• hold
• holds

Holding grudges is not one of your many talents. Stephenie Meyer

• happy
• god
• means

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them. Leo Rosten

• parents
• happy love
• help

I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives. Susan Sarandon

• appearance
• talented
• instincts

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct. Haruki Murakami