#talents

I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#faculties #gives #god #humor #i

I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents. ↗

— Betty Grable

#dance #enough #get #girl #i

But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#beautiful #believe #directing #direction #i

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#endow #evil #fortune #great #greatest

I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#because #been #brotherhood #deep #feelings

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#benefit #bestow #contending #cultivation #deprived

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#believe #deny #i #i am #i believe

I am no more humble than my talents require. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#humble #i #i am #more #require

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#best #choices #given #making #most

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#great #improve #industry #moderate #supply