Pastoral Resources

Talent is being able to please people.

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's going to cost for basic living next year,... Taking sales tax off food isn't going to take care of all of that, but I think it's a way that we can help.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well.

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.