A Quote by John Lothrop Motley

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

John Lothrop Motley

Quote Topics

Increases Practice Repartee Talent

Quote Author

John Lothrop Motley
American - Historian
April 15, 1814 - May 29, 1877

Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

Abhinav Bindra

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

David Lynch

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.

Jerry Lee Lewis

The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.

Tom Rath

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

Joyce Meyer

It is never a good practice to continue to sleep after sunrise. We should not think of staying in bed once we are awake; it increases laziness and dullness. Those who cannot decrease the amount of sleep quickly may do it in gradual stages. Those who do regular spiritual practice do not need much sleep.

Mata Amritanandamayi

When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves

Bikram Choudhury

My thing is, when Barkley played basketball, he didn't practice, he wasn't a leader, he wasn't this or that, he just had natural talent so he got chosen to the Dream Team, All Star team because he had the talent and he was the franchise player on the team.

Charles Oakley

Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that!

Stephen Hawking

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Alexander Theroux

Repartee is the soul of conversation.

John Dryden

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

Alan Brien

If you have talent and you work really hard, it increases your odds but it doesn't ensure anything. But every now and then, the universe must tilt in your direction.