#talent

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#corners #cup #dubious #employs #find

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#any #believe #country #dig #everyone

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

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

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

— Billy Sunday

#lack #men #more #purpose #talent

There is only one school of literature - that of talent. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#only #school #talent

It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it. ↗

— Roger Miller

#figure #how #one thing #out #talent

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me. ↗

— Kate Mulgrew

#any #base #difference #elegance #everything

'America's Got Talent' has really opened a lot of doors for me. I want to do a lot more TV. ↗

— Brandy Norwood

#doors #got #i #lot #me