Quotes of Gift - somelinesforyou

“ When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. ”

- Max Frisch

“ Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. ”

- Unknown

“ To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me.". ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius. ”

- Puzant Kevork Thomajan

“ Success is that old ABC — ability, breaks, and courage. ”

- Charles Luckman

“ Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. ”

- Henri Frederic Amiel

“ In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%. ”

- George Canning

“ Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing. ”

- Thomas De Quincey

“ Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. ”

- Leo F. Buscaglia

“ We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them. ”

- Evelyn Waugh

“ Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way. ”

- William James

“ The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit. ”

- S. G. Tallentyre

“ The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. ”

- Rebecca West

“ The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock. ”

- Henry George

“ Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ”

- Babatunde Olatunji

“ Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world. ”

- Christiane Collange

“ Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ”

- Horace
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