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Unleash the potential that is in another and you unleash the potential that is in you.

Untalented people, unintelligent people go into politics. Those who are talented become artists, painters, poets, philosophers, mystics, dancers. They have a thousand and one other beautiful things to do, not politics. Only the third rate, the most unintelligent part of a country, moves into politics.

Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it was that the woman who slept in his bed would be judged unworthy of his company. Her husband's fans recoiled from the notion that she might have made a significant contribution towards his achievement of greatness. The possibility that a wife might have been closer to their idol than they could ever be, understood him better than they ever could, could not be entertained.

Unprofessionalism damages the business reputation and tarnishes the trust of society.

Use your profession to fund your passion.

Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.

Via your talents, you can go beyond the limits!

Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog's lifestyle.

Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force us to think in Therefore threatening ways?

Watch your time; keep your eyes on your talents. Set your goals and move into action. You owe the world an birth of success; Go, begin to labour for it now!

We aspire to be great, but very few desire to go to great lengths, to do the great things that will make you the great person you desire to be.

We each harbour a talent. It hibernates within us, snug yet eager, waiting for the first darling buds of opportunity to emerge.

We have one great assignment: to fully accomplish what we have been divinely charged by God to the very limit of our sincere strength with due fear courage, in wit and in truth, and within the scope of our Assigner: Jehovah!

What Africa lacks is not lack of resources or talent but the lack of strategic leadership.

What a major mistake, having rejected pretty much all of the great talented female artists that have lived throughout the ages, art history is left incomplete. The validity of the written art history is as absent as those women left out.

What I love is the span between 'Action' and 'Cut'. What I do in that span is what I love about my job".

What you love is a clue to your calling and talent. As you assume the responsibilities of the present, take time to enjoy the privileges available to you now. Today's action will speak better of tomorrow and more.

When it comes to your talent, translate the intangible into the tangible.

When you are genuinely preoccupied in serving others using your talent and experience, doors that you have never knocked start to open up...

When you ignore your gift, you runaway from your purpose.

When you realize who you are, what you can do and the true champion in you, do not slumber and do not feel okay; do not conform any longer when you get to know the true cost of conformity that leads to mediocrity and the death of true destiny; with a true humility, wisdom, understanding and courage, question the status quo and do the undone! Do not just do anything when you get to know you can and must do something. Do the small things that are worthy and solemn with a good heart, and don’t let the great mountains remain unconquered when you have that strength to conquer them! When you are born with the heart of an eagle, and when you have the wings of the eagle, don’t ever fly like the butterfly or else, when one day you journey to the journeys end and God prints a statement of all that you should and could have done to you, you shall have just one statement to say in regret: ‘ahh, I should have done that; Lord, please give me another chance!’, but it shall be too late for you! The world awaits you; wake up! Your true destiny is slumbering; arise and do something!

When your talents mature, rewards blossom.

When your talents shine they dispense light.

While hiring, look for candidates who have been laid off, or who took extended paternity or maternity leave to be with their kids in their growing years. Not only will it give you an excellent hiring experience, in terms of lower joining attrition rate and shorter recruitment cycle, but it will also ensure higher retention rate. People who get laid-off are not bad people or non-performers, it is just that they didn't fit into the culture of one organization or that particular organization couldn't afford them (cost-cutting). Such people deserve to be looked differently and given another chance. People who take an extended break to take care of their infants are career oriented people with a temporary shift in their priorities, do not make it look permanent.

While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling for what was right. It was hard to explain how I knew what I knew.

Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer player's prowess is sorely mistaken. Just as mistaken as those who believe that IQ tests have anything to do with talent or that there is a relationship between penis size and sexual pleasure. Good soccer players need not to be titans sculpted by Michelangelo. In soccer, ability is much more important than shape, and in many cases skill is the art of turning limitations into virtues.

Why were drunks, almost always, persons of talent, personality, lovable qualities, gifts, brains, assets of all kinds (else why would anyone care?); why were so many brilliant men alcoholic?

Willpower and self-discipline are more effective than intellect and talent.

Wir können uns nicht aussuchen wer wir sind oder welche Fähigkeiten und Talente wir besitzen. Wir können nur lernen, sie richtig einzusetzen.

Wisdom is merely the counter power used against on your unique talents to prevent them turning into your deadly curses.

Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.

Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English." [The Instrumentalities of the Night: An Interview with Glen Cook, The SF Site, September 2005]

Yes, he scorned his family’s decadent ways, but perhaps that wasn’t so much about the money per se, but rather the wastefulness of it; the lack of energy and drive it represented, as if the Ransomes were—like that postmodern throng of the famous-for-being-famous set—some odd collection of spoiled Emperor-brats walking a red carpet without any discernible talent to clothe them. The things the Ransomes—and their once-large fortune—could have accomplished . . . they could have changed the world, or at least impacted it in positive ways.

You are a gift to the universe, but a package is only valuable if it allows itself to be unwrapped.

You are called to serve people and humanity with your talent

You are a unique individual with your own special features that you need to carry on your life mission

You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them

You are like a seed; your greater beauty lies not on the outside, but within.

You are my life, little one. We will ask Father Hummer to marry us in the way of your people.” His white teeth gleamed at her. His dark eyes were warm with contentment. “I will accept the marriage as binding, and you will erase the word divorce and all of its meanings from your memory. That will please me.” He grinned at her, male amusement taunting her. Her fingertips traced the hard line of his jaw tenderly. “How do you manage to turn everything to your advantage?” His hand found the bare skin of her satin-smooth thigh, reveling in all that warm heat. “I do not know the answer to that, little one. Perhaps it is sheer talent.

You are your greatest asset in the business of your life.

You become the master of what you master.

You can achieve great things by utilizing your God-given talent

You can go with an empty pocket and come back heavily loaded if you allow your passion to escort you!

You can get fired from your job but you can never get fired from your talents

You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.

You can rise no higher than your faith in your abilities.

You can’t wake up one day and suddenly become a leader. You first discover that specific thing God created you for, develop it into something specific that the world will need, and then you have already leading started leading.

You don't fight the battles you know you will win, its the ones that everyone says you will lose.

You don't have to boast for work that speaks for itself.

You don’t have to compete with any one. Seek to outdo your own performance. You will always be happy.