“Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.” DesireTalentDegreesEndeavour Author:Ken Danby
“While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts.” PeopleArtRealEnjoyBlackLevelsTeachingTalentStudentsBuddhismDegreesMartial ArtsBeltsRamaBlack BeltReal Talent Author:Frederick Lenz
“Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.” SelfBusinessTalentDegreesCapacityOriginalsBusiness SuccessCommonplaceUncommonOwing Book:Liber Amoris and Related Writings Source: Liber Amoris and Related Writings
“Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.” HeavenDemocracyTalentGoodnessDegreesEternalScalesDistinctionGraduatesAlmightyEverlastingNobilityPatentsTrue Democracy Author:Catharine Sedgwick
“The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.” MatterCharacterArtistNovelCreativeTalentDegreesFilledComplexesSizeWideSymphonyComplex Characters Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No one tries to cry except bad actors. How a character hides his feelings tells us who he is. Most people don't know that, and most actors don't do that. Therefore, there are a lot of actors who put me to sleep, that are considered good actors, but they're predictable and boring. I know how the scene is going to end before it ends.” PeopleKnowsTryingEndsCharacterFeelingsActorsSleepLaughingKnow HowTalentCrySceneDegreesBoringCraftsPredictableGood Actors Author:Martin Landau
“For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree.” KnownTalentDegreesPerformancesCastingPublic Image Author:Jen McGowan
“Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.” HumansMightEnergyInterestRealizingHuman BeingsAbilityQualityFailingTalentDegreesDrawsCapacityMajoritySpendingSavedEducatedMusclesTragicSmallestFractionsDormantAtrophy Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher - in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light ofthe past for the purposes of the future” DifferentLightTogetherPastPurposeFoundSpeakTermStudyTalentParticularMastersDegreesStandardsPhilosopherFlightSymbolsCombinationAbstractHistorianConcreteContemplatingMathematicianEconomistStatesmenDifferent DirectionsHigh Standards Book:The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography
“Everyone has the talent to some degree: even making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you know whether it tastes better to you with raspberry jam or grape jelly; on chewy pumpernickel or white toast.” KnowsWhiteTalentTasteDegreesSandwichesJamGrapesToastsPeanutsJellyPeanut ButterRaspberriesPeanut Butter And JellyPeanut Butter Sandwiches Author:Anna D. Shapiro
“I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.” HumansFactsHuman BeingsTalentExerciseIntegrityDegreesGloryArtisticMultipleProficiency Author:Theodore Bikel
“I think the Europeans are a lot more spontaneous, more artistic to some degree. But I don't think they have the technical talent we do here in the states. Here people have been trained much more specifically - they know exactly what they're doing. The Europeans are perhaps slower, but in the end damn near as good.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHas BeensEndsStatesTalentDegreesArtisticDamnSpontaneous Author:Lee Van Cleef
“If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry that provides job opportunities and educational opportunities for black people, then if the black man, the black leadership, who has access to all of this money and has all of these degrees today, can't use his talent and his know-how to set up business opportunities, job opportunities, housing opportunities for the black people the same as the white leaders have done for white people, then these black leaders need to get off the boat.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenNeedsYearsDoneUseTodayJobsOpportunityBlackWhiteLeaderKnow HowTalentIndustryDegreesEducationalAccessBoatImmigrantsBlack PeopleWhite ManHousingUneducatedBusiness OpportunityJob Opportunities Author:Malcolm X