#lent

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#ambition #been #block #effort #failure

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#destiny #director #fate #more #point

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#difficult #excellent #rare #things

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#almost #could #difficult #excellent #found

Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#capacity #course #does #draws #dynamism

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#begins #cause #confidence #creates #downward

I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it. ↗

— Victor Garber

#i #interest #talent

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