#talent

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#become #choose #construction #flatterers #guides

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#gift #god #talent #you #your

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#purpose #talent #wants

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ↗

— Al Capp

#abstract #abstract art #bewildered #product #sold

My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that. ↗

— Nick Cassavetes

#any #ask #characters #dad #devoted

If you've got a talent, protect it. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#got #protect #talent #you

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. ↗

— Willa Cather

#ghastly #god #hands #i #i think

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#failed #few #few men #half #know

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. ↗

— John Wooden

#i #little #lot #rather #talent

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#discrimination #long #long run #much #run