#lent

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#like #must #obscure #pardoned #talent

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#after #being #course #failure #fear

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda. ↗

— Randall Terry

#agenda #been #christian #downright #homosexual

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#act #agent #always #because #came

Of every noble work the silent part is best, of all expression that which can not be expressed. ↗

— William Wetmore Story

#every #expressed #expression #noble #part

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#bach #been #born #composing #due

I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me. ↗

— Sally Struthers

#am #amazing #around #feel #i

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#decided #even #know #minority #need

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#lack #men #more #purpose #talent

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed. ↗

— John Sununu

#because #benefited #cannibal #changed #competitors