Top 1200 Using Your Talents Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

Let me tell you something. When I was young, I was an armed robber. I did robberies. And there's no adrenaline rush like that. When you're using drugs and doing robberies, it's hard to distinguish whether you're doing robberies to support your drug habit, or doing drugs to support your robbery habit.

One's single greatest strength may be uncovering the hidden talents of another person.

Everybody deserves to showcase their different talents and there's always somebody new you can tap into.

God is not about using the mighty but the willing. He is not into using amazing people, just ones who prepared to lay their lives down to him. God is not looking for extraordinary, exceptionally gifted people, just laid down lovers of Jesus who will carry his glory with transparency and not take it for themselves

James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

We are very proud of the diverse talents within the Franklin Mint's own walls.

One of my greatest talents is recognizing talent in others and giving them the forum to shine.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.

I would like to think all our gifts and talents and abilities come from God.

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

I have no real talents. If I could make a living at a normal job, I'm sure I would do that.

It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

I have many unrecognized talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition.

Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

I just love this idea of using, especially in terms of food, using that common sense. If you follow that - it's hard to talk about it without sounding like some New Age idiot, which I think is a bit unfair - but, if you do follow that natural cycle, you will inevitably eat better, cheaper, and much, much, much, much healthier.

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

A lot of what I know as a filmmaker is because of hockey. That's teamwork, and being able to collaborate with people, and be creative with them, and get the most out of everybody. Everyone's got different talents, and you've got to bring out the best of everybody, and use your strengths and work together, and try and evolve it rather than do what was done before you, and to push into new areas.

I do worry that as we try to fix this long-term debt and deficit situation that we don't destroy the market incentives for biomedical research. What I fear is the government using its considerable clout to say, 'Here's the price we're setting for your medicines.'

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

Designer pricing should hurt, but it shouldn't kill you. You wince when you hand over your AmEx, but once you get it home, you never regret it. You divide it by how many days you're using it, and suddenly it becomes affordable.

Nobody I ever broke bread with - and I see players all the time - talked about using their head running the football. I've seen Barry Sanders and Eric Dickerson and Marcus Allen and Franco Harris, and we've all been together - we were all together at the Super Bowl - and no one talked about using their head.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.

There's nothing better for my interests and talents than combining math and sports for profit.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

The cold truth is that the best products don't always win. Many times it's - the products that have the ability to keep users coming back and using them without conscious thought and using them out of habit are the ones that keep us coming back.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

Let us focus on developing our capabilities and talents here at home to be a model for the world.

Skiing is always so huge, you need so many talents to be fast and be good at this sport.

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.

I had a unique privilege to have a good start in life and a chance to develop my talents.

Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and you’ve performed all your responsibilities as a father and as a partner. And just discovery and the great adventure of having eyes wide open. There’s so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you meet along the way. By using my career as the wind in the sails of my adventures, I could see so many things and so many people that I might have missed had my career gone a different direction.

Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.

Release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.

You'll be using digital currency. I think really what will happen is you'll use a combination of bitcoin, ether, your devices, the 'Internet of Things.' We've got billions of devices coming online.

We were trying to build the best team around our talents in Houston.

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.

I love showcasing my talents - not only to my hometown fans and my own team but to the world.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

I don't really have a talent. I can't sing or act or dance or perform, those talents. All I can do is be myself.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents.

I like large sounds and very complex sonorities, and I also tend to opt for creating a feeling of vast space. I could achieve this effect either by using a symphony orchestra, which for a dance piece is pretty much impossible these days, or by using a synthesizer on multi-channel tape and a superb sound system, to get that same sensation of expansiveness and depth.

I didn't think that and I didn't verbalize that to myself or within meetings that we ever had, but we wanted to make a hard-nosed, gritty, realistic spy thriller. Roger talked about using lenses. He shot hi-def, but using anamorphic lenses that he'd found from this warehouse. He was so thrilled with that. Him and Romain [Lacourbas] were just like kids in a toy store with their lenses.

Research shows that the happiest people are those who use their natural talents to the utmost.

Dancing is not one of my talents. But when you've had a few drinks anyone is a good dancer, right?

Successful people use their strength by recognizing, developing, and utilizing the talents of others.