Quote Worthy

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. - John Maynard Keynes

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. - Baruch Spinoza

If you have experienced the dark, you can better appreciate the light. – Unknown

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare. - Sun Tzu

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far. - Will Rogers

The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. - Benjamin Disraeli

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. - Unknown

Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before. - Unknown

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Unknown

Happy Lunar New Year

Wishing all celebrating Lunar New Year a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous Year of the Horse!

Eating Nuts Helps Keep Weight Down

A new study adds to growing evidence that nuts – once considered too fattening to be healthy – may, in fact, help keep weight down, on top of offering other health benefits.

Researchers found that study participants who ate the most tree nuts – such as almonds, Brazil nuts, pistachios and walnuts – were between 37 and 46 per cent less likely to be obese than those who ate the fewest tree nuts.

People who ate the most nuts were also less likely to have metabolic syndrome, which is defined as having three or more conditions associated with heart disease and diabetes risk.

The study, which was published online in Plos One, was partially funded by a grant from the International Tree Nut Council Nutrition Research and Education Foundation.

In another recent study that the foundation also funded, researchers found that people who reported eating the most nuts were less likely to die over a 24-year period than those who ate the fewest nuts.

While such evidence cannot show that nuts cause the differences seen between people who love them and those who do not, there are reasons to believe nuts provide a direct benefit, said Dr Joan Sabate, the new study’s senior author from Loma Lind University in California in the United States.

For example, nuts are high in unsaturated fat, which is known as ‘good’ fat, rather than the ‘bad’ saturated fat in animal products. The high protein content of nuts may also lead people to feel fuller and eat less unhealthy food. Nuts also contain a host of other nutrients and beneficial plant chemicals.

For the study, the researchers used data on the diets of 803 men and women in the United States who were already enrolled in another study. Overall, those who ate a lot of tree nuts – about 16g per day – were just a little over normal weight, on average compared with those who ate few or no nuts and were seriously overweight or obese.

A normal body mass index (BMI) – a measure of weight in relation to height – for an adult falls between 18.5 and 24.9. Overweight people have a BMI of between 25 and 29.9 and a BMI of 30 or more is considered obese.

Participants who ate the most nuts have an average BMI of about 27 while those who ate the least – less than 5g of tree nuts per day – had an average BMI of 29 to 30.

The researchers also found that a third of the participants had metabolic syndrome.

For every one-ounce serving of tree nuts consumed per week, however, a person’s risk of having metabolic syndrome dropped by 7 per cent.

- Reuters

Quote Worthy

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. - Carl T. Rowan

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. - Vista M. Kelly

An ascetic life leads to tranquillity and harmony; strong determination makes no room for outside temptation. - Unknown

It’s better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late - Marilyn Moats Kennedy 

You will always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything. - Unknown

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. - Maya Angelou

One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of things that makes you sad. - Unknown

Kinetics is nature’s way of preventing everything from happening all at once. - S.E. LeBlanc

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth. - Thomas Huxley

Paraprosdokian

A paraprosdokian (from Greek, meaning "beyond" and "expectation") is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists.

            Some paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a syllepsis.

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I don’t mind arguing with myself. It’s when I lose that it bothers me. - Richard Powers

I drink to make other people look more interesting. - Unknown

I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here. - Stephen Bishop

I found a concert ticket nailed to a tree, so I took it. You never know when you might need a nail. - Unknown

I hate two faced people, it makes it harder for me to decide which side to slap first. - Unknown

I hate writing, I love having written. - Dorothy Parker

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes... - Philip Dusenberry

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me. - Rodney Dangerfield  

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. - Rodney Dangerfield  

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. - Fred Allen

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. - Jerome Klapka Jerome

I love rumours. I always find out amazing things about myself that I never knew. - Unknown

I make it a policy to try never to make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way. After all, there’s always all kinds of new ways to make a complete idiot of myself. Why repeat the old ones? - Margot Dalton

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Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all the mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend. - Saadi

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Unknown

When you feel as if you are going to scream, take a few moments to get away from it all if you can. Breathe deeply, try to see things in perspective, and come out and face the world again when you are ready. - Unknown

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. - Sun Tzu

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more. - Daniel Defoe 

Apologizing does not always mean that you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego. - Unknown

Weather - Quotes

Do not knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people could not start a conversation if it did not change once in a while. - Kin Hubbard

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. - John Ruskin

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. - Patrick Young

Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in and around your lettuce and green beans. - Henry van Dyke 

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. - Jane Austen

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It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. - Alexandra Smith 

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. - Publilius Syrus

The real key to health and happiness and success is self-knowledge. - Unknown

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. - Unknown

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. - Muriel Spark

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye. - Saadi

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the air. - Unknown

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana  

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? - Robert Schuller

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted. - Samuel Smiles

When in doubt just take the next small step. - Unknown

When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. - Unknown

Tact - Quotes

Looking for a quote on a particular subject? I have categorized the quotes to make the search easier This 'label' - ZQuotesT - has all the quotes on subjects beginning with the Alphabet T. You might want to search the labels on the right hand side of the page too.

Tact

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung. - George Horace Lorimer

Cultivate tact for it is the mark of culture ... the lubricant of human relations, softening contacts and minimizing friction. - Baltasar Gracian

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends. - Chelsea Handler

In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork. - Wilson Mizner

It cannot be denied that tact is a virtue. The sort of person who always manages to blurt out the tactless thing, apparently by accident, is a person full of dislike of his or her fellow creatures. But although tact is a virtue, it is very closely allied to certain vices; the line between tact and hypocrisy is a very narrow one. I think the distinction comes in the motive: when it is kindliness that makes us wish to please, our tact is the right sort; when it is fear of offending, or desire to obtain some advantage by flattery, our tact is apt to be of a less amiable kind. - Bertrand Russell

It is tact that is golden, not silence. - Samuel Butler

People with tact have less to retract. - Arnold Glasgow

Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name. - Frank Medlicott

Step with care and great tact, and remember that life's a great balancing act. - Dr. Seuss

Tact ... is the unsaid part of what you think.... And there is only one thing more potent – its opposite – the unthought part of what you say. - Henry van Dyke

Tact carries a bunch of curiously-fashioned keys, that open all kinds of doors. - Unknown 

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. - Jean Cocteau

Tact is a combination of good temper, ready wit, quickness of perception and ability to take in the exigency of the occasion instantly. - Orison Swett Marden

Tact is giving a person a pat on the back when you feel like giving him a kick in the pants. - Evan Esar

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon. - Arthur Lynch

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents. - William Gillmore Simms

Tact is rubbing out another’s mistakes, not rubbing them in. - Marvin J. Ashton 

Tact is something that goes unnoticed when it is used – but when it is not used, everybody notices. - Unknown

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. - Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to shut your mouth before someone else does it for you. - Evan Esar

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes. - Harry S. Truman

Tact is the art of building a fire under people without making their blood boil. - Franklin P. Jones

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

Tact is the art of dressing the bare facts and draping the naked truth. - Evan Esar

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. - Howard W. Newton

Tact is the art of thinking twice before saying nothing. - Evan Esar

Tact is the intelligence of the heart. - Unknown

 

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. - Howard W. Newton

Tact is the oil which lubricates society and prevents its harsh and heterogeneous particles from grating against each other; and in proportion as a person possesses this valuable emollient, so will he go roughly or smoothly through the world. - Charles William Day

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong. - Sir Hugh Percy Allen

Tact is the rare talent for not admitting you were right in the first place. - Unknown

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; its opposite, the unthought part which you say. - Henry van Dyke

Tact swings the door open to success when merit cannot even turn the knob. - A. D. Hard

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. - Oliver Herford

Tactfulness is being careful to pick the best time for all concerned. Even saying nothing may be the sort of tact that is just right for the situation. - Leo Buscaglia

The possession of tact makes a man a diplomat; the lack of it makes him a miserable failure, irrespective of other ability. - A. D. Hard

The use of tact is always needful but it is especially necessary when speaking a truth that may strike a sensitive nerve in another. - Robert E. Fisher

Avocado To Banish Hunger Pangs

Want to stop snacking? Eat half an AVOCADO at lunch to banish hunger pangs

- People who eat avocado with lunch feel 40% less desire to snack

- They also feel more satisfied for the three hours after their lunch

- Eating an avocado with lunch increases calorie and carbohydrate intake at that meal but does not increase blood sugar levels

By Emma Innes

PUBLISHED: 12:34 GMT, 9 January 2014 | UPDATED: 13:18 GMT, 9 January

People who eat avocado with their lunch are less likely to snack in the afternoon as the fruit increases feelings of fullness

Want to banish unhealthy snacking between meals? Then add an avocado to your lunch.

Eating half an avocado at lunchtime can boost feelings of fullness and reduce the temptation to snack between meals, experts claim.

Their study compared the effects of incorporating a fresh avocado into a lunch with the effects of eating a standard lunch.

They aimed to determine how avocado consumption would influence satiety, blood sugar, insulin response and snacking.

The researchers studied 26 healthy but overweight adults.

They found that participants who added half a fresh avocado to their lunch reported 40 per cent decreased desire to eat in the following three hours as well as a 28 per cent reduced desire to eat over the subsequent five hours.

In addition, they reported increased feelings of satisfaction over the three hours following the meal.

Study leader, Dr Joan Sabate, a nutritionist from Loma Linda University, in California, said: ‘Satiety is an important factor in weight management, because people who feel satisfied are less likely to snack between meals.

‘We noted that though adding avocados increased participants' calorie and carbohydrate intake at lunch, there was no increase in blood sugar levels beyond what was observed after eating the standard lunch.

‘This leads us to believe that avocados’ potential role in blood sugar management is worth further investigation.’

She said that while the findings were generally positive, more research is needed to determine whether the conclusions drawn from this study can be applied to the general public.

However, the results do provide promising clues and a basis for future research to determine avocados' effect on satiety, glucose and insulin response.

Half of a fresh avocado contains about 150 calories and is also high in fibre. However, it is high in fat.

The research was published in the Nutrition Journal.

Will / Willpower - Quotes

For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or a one-night stand. When people say, "I have no willpower," what they usually mean is, "I have trouble saying no when my mouth, stomach, heart, or (fill in your anatomical part) wants to say yes." - Kelly McGonigal

He who is firm in will moulds the world to himself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower. - Robert McKee

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing truly stops you.  Nothing truly holds you back.  For your own will is always within your control.  Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn’t be affected by an incident unless you let it. - Epictetus

Strong willpower is always driven by a strong underlying purpose. A reason to put in the necessary effort and take action. Reasons are the fuel behind the dream! - Canaan Mashonganyika

The first step toward building willpower is to celebrate the fact that you've got it. You've got willpower, just like that muscle in your arm. It might not be a very strong muscle, but you do have that muscle. - Steve Chandler

To the healthy man, difficulties should act as a tonic. They should open us to greater exertion. They should strengthen our willpower. - B. C. Forbes

Where there's a will, there's a way. - English Proverb

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion. - Benjamin Whichcote

Willpower is a hard thing to explain. It has no defined limits. It is the driving force to all human accomplishments; things exist now that did not exist in the past because somebody focused their will and their concentration on creating something that filled whatever need they saw. Will is what makes the impossible possible. - Michelle Steven

Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time. - B. K. S.Iyengar

Willpower is consciousness in action. - Nikias Annas

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile. - Brian Tracy

Willpower is likely the most important keystone habit there is. Willpower has more of an impact on individual success than intelligence, talent or education level. - P. James Holland

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success. - Peter M. Senge

Willpower is steam for life's locomotion. - Praveen Kumar

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top. - Joyce Meyer

Willpower is the driving force in hopeful thinking. - C. R. Snyder

Willpower is your ability to set a course of action and say, "Engage!" It is the spearhead of self-discipline. It provides an intensely powerful yet temporary boost. Think of it as a one-shot thruster. It burns out quickly, but if directed intelligently, it can provide the burst you need to overcome inertia and create momentum. - John Aurther

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A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir – a constant source of energy, determination and kindness. - Dalai Lama

Do not measure success or failure by material wealth, but by how you feel; our feelings determine the richness of our lives. - Unknown

    

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. - Will Rogers

Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special. - Unknown

Sometimes you have to move on without certain people. If they’re meant to be in your life, they’ll catch up. - Unknown

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. - Unknown

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other. - Joshua L. Liebman

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion. - Lin-Chi

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. - Unknown

You know you’re on the right track when you become uninterested in looking back. - Unknown

Paraprosdokians

A paraprosdokian (from Greek, meaning "beyond" and "expectation") is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists.

            Some paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a syllepsis.

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Don’t pay any attention to the critics. Don’t even ignore them. - Samuel Goldwyn 

Don’t take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to. - Josh Billings

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. - John Benfield

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet. - Lewis C. Henry

Errors have been made. Others will be blamed. - Unknown

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some do not have film. - Unknown

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. - Samuel Goldwyn 

Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get. - Unknown

Forgive your enemies - if you can’t get back at them any other way. - Franklin P. Jones

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns

Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now. - Unknown

Honesty is a very expensive gift. Do not expect it from cheap people. Warren Buffet

I can hear music coming out of my printer. I think the paper’s jammin’ again. - Unknown

I do not burn bridges. I just loosen the bolts a little, every day. - Unknown

I don’t hold grudges. I hold memories that keep me better prepared for our next encounter. - Unknown

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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. - Marcus Aurelius

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. - George Santayana  

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. - Barbara De Angelis 

Unless you learn to face your own shadows, you will continue to see them in others, because the world outside you is only a reflection of the world inside you. - Unknown

Maybe Destiny wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful. - Unknown

When we wake up in the morning, we have two simple choices. Go back to sleep and dream, or wake up and chase those dreams. The choice is yours. - Unknown

Winds - Quotes

If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind. -Seneca

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it. - Sir Winston Churchill

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon

The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sail. - Ramakrishna

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. - Bertha Calloway

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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau

A wise soul opens the window to the future by closing the doors to the past. - Unknown

You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to live a positive life. - Joel Osteen

Difficult things take a long time; the impossible takes a little longer. - Unknown

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - Unknown

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. - William Shakespeare

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words. - Confucius

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. - Henri Frederic Amiel

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. - Edith Sodergran

Let the other fellow find out who you are. He'll remember it longer. - Unknown

Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. - Vincent Van Gogh

Everything is okay in the end. If it is not okay, then it is not the end. - Unknown

Talent - Quotes

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. - Sydney Smith

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. - Doris Lessing

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents. - John F Kennedy

At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. - Eric Hoffer

Because many talents are first identified and nurtured in childhood, it can be difficult to determine whether talent is innate, can be acquired through extensive practice or can only be acquired in the presence of the developing brain. - Francesca Happe & Uta Frith

Brevity is the sister of talent. - Anton Chekhov

But talent – if you don’t encourage it, if you don’t train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don’t tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn’t matter how fast it is. It’s useless. - Elizabeth Hand

Concealed talent brings no reputation. - Desiderius Erasmus

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong

Genius, without talent, is a wild, and beautiful, and erratic meteor; talent, without genius, is a steady light, which lasts long, but never throws a flood of radiance upon earth or sky. - Unknown

Great talent finds happiness in execution. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade. - Ben Franklin

However you make your living is where your talent lies. - Ernest Hemingway

I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that any more because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either. - Fran Lebowitz

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein

I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire. - Gordon Lish

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and  a triumph few men ever know. - Thomas Wolfe

If we have a talent and cannot use it, we have failed. If we have a talent and use only half of it, we  have partly failed. If we have a talent and learn somehow to use all of it, we have gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few individuals ever know. - Thomas Wolfe

If you’re young and talented, it’s like you have wings. - Haruki Murakami

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent – almost like a carrier pigeon. - George Eliot

It is a great talent for a ruler to use the talents of men as though he possessed them. - Duke of Tsin

It takes little talent to see what is under one’s nose, but a good deal of it to know in what direction to point that organ. - W. H. Auden

Many times we take our talents for granted. We think because we can do something well, anyone can. Often that's not true. How can you tell when you're overlooking a skill or talent? Listen to what others say. Your strengths will capture the attention of others and draw them to you. On the other hand, when you're working in areas of weakness, few people will show interest. If others are continually praising you in a particular area, start developing it. - John C. Maxwell

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent. - Murray D. Edwards

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. - Billy Sunday

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. Each of us has some unique capabilities waiting for realization. - Sydney Smith

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do. - Myrtle Auvil

Not he deserves praise that has talents, but he that uses them. - Ivan Panin

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. - Unknown

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals. - Zig Ziglar

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents. - Harper Lee

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. - Carl Jung

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

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. - Stephen King

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. - Stephen King

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius. - Austin O’Malley

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. - Stephen King

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. - Hector Berlioz

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. - Magic Johnson

Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying. - Stephen King

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. - Konstantin Stanislavsky

Talent is often mistaken for genius, especially by the man who has it. - Evan Esar

Talent must be viewed as the most indispensable ingredient for success, but success also depends on how that talent is managed. - Allan Schweyer

Talent only gives an imperfect image – the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of Genius remain unruffled. - Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott

Talent, for talent's sake, is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated: rays powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point. - Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent. - Steve Martin

The best way to get more talents is to improve the talents we have. - Edward Bickersteth 

The man who was born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more talents you have, the greater is your responsibility to use them for your own benefit and those of mankind. - Unknown

The most eminent authority does not always have the right answer. No matter what the source of discouraging advice, pay no attention to it until you have given your talent a fair trial. - Henry N. Gerguson

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. - Thomas Jeffeson

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The possession of superior talent creates more wishes than it gratifies. - Eliza Cook

The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use that one talent. - Edgar W. Work

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. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms; very often it does not know what to do with genius. Talent is a docile creature; it bows its head meekly while the world slips the collar over it; it backs into the shafts like a lamb. It draws its load cheerfully, and is patient of the bit and of the whip. But genius is always impatient of its harness; its wild blood makes it hard to train. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower. - Unknown

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all. - Mark Twain

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but also its own talents. - Eric Hoffer

We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to. - Tobias Wolff

We must despise no sort of talents: they all have their separate duties and uses, all the happiness of man for their object; they all improve, exalt, and gladden life. - Sydney Smith

Well-matured and well-disciplined talent is always sure of a market, provided it exerts itself; but it must not cower at home and expect to be sought for. - Washington Irving

When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes. - Charles Caleb Colton

When you are able to set free the talents in others, you automatically set free some of your own in the process. - Unknown

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. - Unknown

When your camels find no more nourishment, remove to a more fertile spot; and when your talents are not appreciated, seek another country. - Ibn Munir

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation. - Aristotle

While you have a talent, and time to use it, be diligent. - John Thornton

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. - Henri Frederic Amiel

You have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world – and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfil needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance. - Deepak Chopra