#lent

...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard... ↗

— Morgan Matson

#gift #practice #talent #crime

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. ↗

— George Eliot

#blessings #loquacity #remaining-silent #reticence #silence

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#contradiction #face #i #i believe #i believe that

I’m bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned.
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— Jarod Kintz

#english #ignore #ignoring #language #languages

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#heart #reading #growth

Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilites need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, NO ONE can take it away. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#inspirational #talents #dreams

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure. ↗

— Lilith Saintcrow

#the-devil-s-right-hand #escape

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#talent

YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode. ↗

— James Patterson

#talent #talent

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room ↗

— Austin Kleon

#gigo #learn #talent #talent