#talents

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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That is what is marvelous about school, she realized: when you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless. You ace a math test: you will one day work for NASA. The choir director asks you to sing a solo at the holiday concert: you are the next Mariah Carey. You score a goal, you win a poetry contest, you act in a play. And you are everything at once: actor, astronomer, gymnast, star. But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents dropping away, like feathers from a molting bird. Cello lessons conflict with soccer practice. There aren't enough spots on the debating team. Calculus remains elusive. Until the day you realize that you cannot think of a single thing you are wonderful at. ↗

— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

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I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep. ↗

— Taylor Phinney

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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

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Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

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Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

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Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion. ↗

— Junius

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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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