“That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.” KnowsTryingDifferentEndsSongChallengesGrowing UpGrowingWonderfulTalentSongwriters Author:Margaret Whiting
“Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.” MenEndsRunningTalentSafetyCompromisePerceiveReasonableContentmentStabilityProgressionSettlement Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“The goals for Virginia lacrosse don't change a lot from year to year. We look at the lineup, start every year on Sept. 1 with the realistic goal to play at the end of the season, the very last game. This team has the talent to be able to do that.” YearsLooksEndsPlayAbleLastsGamesGoalTeamTalentSeasonsRealisticVirginiaDon't ChangeLacrosseRealistic Goals Author:Dom Starsia
“The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.” ArtEndsEducationTalentPaintingMachinesFedsFactoriesAcademy Author:Edvard Munch
“Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.” KnowsEndsEnergyCreativityCreativeTalentActivityDrawsMathematicsCookingWoodsDrawingDisasterExperimentsImaginativeCarvingDrivel Author:Julia Child
“The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.” EndsWrittenTalentUpset Author:John C. Maxwell