Pastoral Resources

There's a lot of women in the WNBA. There's a lot of women who could be here. To be voted by the fans says a lot - that people are aware of what's going on. I'm really thankful. I think they just really appreciate my talent so I'm definitely grateful.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.