#lent

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#confused #constituted #delicate #discouraged #distinctions

Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first. ↗

— Andrea Jung

#ceo #first #get #people #priority

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#ambitious #gross #i #i am #monstrosity

Laws are silent in time of war. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#silent #time #war

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#especially #honest #humanity #i #i can

I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#does #given #god #got #harmless

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#always #cheerful #exercise #expect #hurry

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities. ↗

— Julian Clary

#celebrities #hideous #making #ourselves #relentless

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#being #cannot #going #happen #hard

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#before #child #first #guess #i