#lent

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles. ↗

— Kim Wilde

#obstacles #real #talent #through #whatever

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers. ↗

— Frances Wright

#equal #equality #exercise #genius #how

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it. ↗

— Rick Wright

#composes #elton #elton john #example #for example

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#black #bleed #day #every #every day

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for. ↗

— Loretta Young

#batting #getting #gives #high #i

I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection. I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#mentoring #talent #vocation #art

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly. ↗

— Criss Jami

#artists #bondage #boundaries #boxes #brilliance

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass. ↗

— Mary Kay Blakely

#divorce #equivalent #psychological #triple

When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #talent #inspirational

It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids in their windows by January second to rub it in. (Thwonk) ↗

— Joan Bauer

#commercialization #humor #self-pity #unrequited-love #valentine-s-day