#lent

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#industry #substitute #talent #virtues

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#arrangement #benevolent #greater #life #only

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. ↗

— Stephen King

#hard #hard work #individual #lot #salt

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life. ↗

— Myriam Miedzian

#create #destroy #equivalent #female #life

So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#bottom #continued #fine #gave #i

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #because #calculated #carefully #controlled

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. ↗

— Quintilian

#creates #excellent #fault #impression #our

Plenty of people who are 38 have run really well in the marathon. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#people #plenty #really #run #well

We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#each #everyone #find #individual #manner

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#armed #deadly #frightening #hit #inflation