A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the individual skills and talents of its people. Something more grows out of their unity than can be calculated by adding the assets of individual contributions. That intangible additional quantity is often due to the differences which make the texture of the nation rich. Therefore, we must never wipe out or deride the differences amongst us-for where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
My talents are in demand, and my unique gifts are appreciated by those around me.
Jenson Button is the real deal. It just takes the right environment, the right time - don't doubt he has all the talents to win Grands Prix and challenge for championships.
With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of evey other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.
To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities.
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
Stripping for cash is yet another of my many talents
Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.
Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.
There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.
Cult leaders are often self-styled prophets who have not studied with great teachers or undergone lengthy training or discipline themselves. . . Many of the most dangerous cultic figures of our times have no such stabilizing context of tradition, lineage or transmission, but are self-proclaimed gurus who sway their followers through their charismatic talents. . . .
Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.
You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.
If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it.
How I regret now that my perpetual emotional dependence on the man I love has killed all my other talents - my energy too: and I had such a lot of that once.