#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

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#certain #consider #ever #finding #fortunate

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. ↗

— Steve Martin

#around #dance #detail #i #inventive

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

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#comprehend #dedication #doing #get #had

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. ↗

— George S. Patton

#executed #good #good plan #next #now

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#aware #been #had #i #talent

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#economic #economic growth #equivalent #government #growth