Best talent & whole Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.”

Feels Whole Humanity Order Actors Talent Poet Waste Musician Obligation Painter Artistic Perceive Vocation Neighbour Sculptors

Author:Pope John Paul II

“It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions.”

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.”

Ifs Long Whole Use Together Term Levels Results Five Risk Talent Sweet Charity Profit Extremes Humanitarian Long Term Disadvantages

Book:Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

Source: Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

“Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]”

Whole Talent Genius Proportion

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.”

Whole Difficult Quality Talent Pride Amount Genius Honor Labor Claims Aids Dependent

Author:William C. Bryant

“One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?”

Source: The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall

“Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.”

“Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a very gifted composer and arranger never ceases to amaze me. I consider him one of the musical giants of our age.”

Whole Age Ability Talent Musical Cease Giants Composer Elites Gifted Spectrum Epitome Musical Talent

Author:Oscar Peterson

“Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.”

Matter Whole Beautiful Talent Produce Amount Genius Integrity Originals Latter Fragments Integrating Fertile Original Thought

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.”

Mind Firsts Children Littles Whole Poetry Pieces Talent Poet Chiefs Titles Enlightened Aspire Superiority Hindrance Great Poet Unlearn

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.”

Men Way Whole Study Talent Strive Characteristics Improving Wretched Specialty Narrow Mindedness

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.”

Ifs Whole Progress Team Talent Produce Intelligent Blind Ignorant Behaviour Committees Narrow-minded Duplicate

Author:Daniel Dennett

“I've sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the car, sing everywhere really, on set at Chuck, all the time. I like it, and I've always felt like I've had a knack for it, or a talent for it, on some level, I don't know.”

Knows Whole Felt Levels Growing Up Growing Talent Car Theater Musical Whole Life Showers Chuck Knack Musical Theater

Author:Zachary Levi

“Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the gifts and talents that are ours. You ask about possible vehicles for change: question, stand, speak, act. Engage in unruly behavior. Disturb the status quo. Take direct action. Commit civil disobedience. Make art. Build community. Dance. Sing. Farm. Cook. Create something beautiful and then give it away. Find your own monkey wrench and use it with the force of love. Sharpen your pencil. Vote.”

“The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.”

“I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.”

Years Play Whole School Used Mother Ability Study Talent Whole Year

Book:Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

“I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times.”

Art Whole Moments Talent Masters Whole Life Live In The Moment Best Times

Author:Big Sean

“I love his [Brad Furman] ferocious desire for perfection and his love of vitality, it feeds me, man. It feeds him and it feeds the whole crew. And he's got huge respect for talent. And that's why talent goes in and gives it 300% percent.”

Men Giving Whole Desire Talent Huge Percent Perfection Crew His Love Vitality Brad

Author:John Leguizamo

“Firms that fully embrace the needs and interests of the whole person will win today's competition for the best talent.”

Needs Persons Whole Today Winning Interest Talent Embrace Competition Firm Whole Person

Author:Stewart D. Friedman

“America is the only developed nation in the world with no guaranteed paid leave of any kind. That means we're leaving a whole lot of talent on the sidelines.”

World Kind Mean Whole America Nations Talent Paid Leaving Sidelines Developed Nations

Author:Hillary Clinton