Browsing Quotes With Tag: talent (10)
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The doing of something is 90% of the joy of it. The doing of it well is that extra 10%.
Speaker: Mike PescaPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
Speaker: George LucasPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 3:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Speaker: Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSource: http://quotes4all.net/Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 10:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If the power to do hard work is not a talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.
Speaker: James A. GarfieldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you have great talents, industriousness will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies.
Speaker: Samuel SmilesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Speaker: Henry Van DykePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Freedom is born of obedience; the freedom to play the piano comes entirely from obedience to the laws of piano playing, from disciplined practicing, from sacrificing alternative activities to cultivate this talent. This is true in developing any talent, any skill, and virtually everyone accepts it as a fact. Why, then, is there resistance to the concept of obeying God, to keeping the commandments in the moral and spiritual realms?
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Too many vacations, vacations lasting too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video-game playing, too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance – this kind of thing gradually wastes a life, wastes a family. It ensures that one’s capacities stay dormant, God-given talents remain undeveloped, the mind and spirit become lethargic, and the heart is unfulfilled. Such a life gives no service, makes no contribution, enjoys no larger vision, and short of repentance and change, it slips down to spiritual decay and death.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in the palm of my hand, there was this one tape that had all of these memories and feelings and great joy and sadness. Right there in the palm of my hand. And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope that they feel it’s enough. I really do because they’ve made me happy. And I’m only one person.
Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The trouble with my generation is that we all think we’re fucking geniuses. Making something isn’t good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something. It’s our inalienable right, as citizens of the twenty-first century. If Christina Aguilera or Britney or some American Idol jerk can be something, then why can’t I? Where’s mine, huh? OK, so my band, we put on the best live shows you could ever see in a bar, and we made two albums, which a lot of critics and not many real people liked. But having talent is never enough to make us happy, is it? I mean, it should be, because a talent is a gift, and you should thank God for it, but I didn’t. It just pissed me off because I wasn’t being paid for it, and it didn’t get me on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Oscar Wilde once said, “One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.” Well, fucking right on, Oscar. My real life was full of headlining shows at Wembley and Madison Square Garden and platinum records, and Grammys, and that wasn’t the life I was leading, which is maybe why it felt like I could throw it away.Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!