Pastoral Resources

I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team - I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill.

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.

Character is more important than talent.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

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

For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.