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The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability. -- Jamie Bamber
With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit, you will never succeed, regardless of your talent and ability. -- Ezra Taft Benson
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. -- Alan Shepard
Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen. -- Ed Miliband
I want people to appreciate talent and ability. -- Michael Jackson
I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day. -- Victoria Chang
I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire. -- Don Henley
A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you. -- Bob Proctor
Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination. -- Erwin McManus
The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them. It's astonishing how much talent and ability rests inside a human being -- Zig Ziglar
We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally strange reason we think other people can accomplish things that we cannot. I want you to understand that that is not true. You have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you that you can bring to the surface and achieve all that you desire -- Earl Nightingale
If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals. -- Liang Chow
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success. -- Martin Seligman
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. -- Dean Koontz
Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance. -- Karen Kain
Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character. -- Michael Zaslow
My husband and I believe that if you treat a child well and nurture his talent and physical ability, in a healthy environment, the child will succeed no matter what. -- Dominique Moceanu
I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing. -- Ernie Harwell
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. -- Irwin Shaw
The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of. -- John Engler
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. -- Paul Rand
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. -- Mel Brooks
Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can play till 32 or 34 with same fitness and without injuries, he will come to a point where not even Vivian Richards neither Sachin Tendulkar had such a record. -- Kapil Dev
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents. -- Sania Mirza
When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today. -- Maya Angelou
I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation. -- Joel Osteen
General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. -- Jim Talent
Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work. -- Michael Jordan
My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite. -- Natsuo Kirino
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. -- Roy L. Smith
Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. -- Neal Stephenson
Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something? -- Tennessee Williams
So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent. -- Sally Kirkland
Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent. -- George Allen, Sr.
Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent. -- George Allen, Sr.
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown. -- Anatole France
Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare. -- Lawrence Wright
Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare. -- Erin Morgenstern
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else. -- Herschel Walker
Great leaders have an ability, a characteristic of analyzing very good talent, and empowering that talent. -- Rick Perry
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess. -- Bill McKibben
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships. -- Gore Vidal
Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things. -- Steve Martin
Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it. -- Amit Kalantri
Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation. -- Mieczyslaw Jastrun
My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had. -- Berry Gordy
The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent. -- Albert Einstein
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims. -- Thomas Sowell
Every skill, every talent, every capacity, and every ability of the mind are really the Soul-action made visibly tangible. -- Joel S. Goldsmith
Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody. -- Cung Le
Over the years I have found one of my best strengths is my ability to recognise talent and trust them. -- Richard Branson
Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals, -- Liang Chow
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. -- Amy Grant
Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances. -- James E. Loehr
Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another. -- Corita Kent
I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck. -- Anja Rubik
I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. -- Shinichi Suzuki
Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing. -- Marvin J. Ashton
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas. -- Boris Spassky
To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess. -- Paul Halmos
When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma. -- Deepak Chopra
The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember. -- Karl Kraus
No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers. -- Robert Heller
We fear no one knows our potential, ability, power, and talent. We fear to learn about our capability and capacity so we keep it latent. -- Debasish Mridha
Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club. -- Henry Beard
I'm just a kid in a candy store right now, trying to have fun. I'm getting a chance to show my ability and my talent. -- Dwyane Wade
My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors. -- David Lean
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent. -- Nolan Ryan
Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity. -- Albert Einstein
I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde) -- Timothy Zahn
I keep my feet on the ground, keep dedicated, keep focused, underestimate nobody and obviously you need the ability, talent and everything else that goes with it. -- Joe Calzaghe
The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets. -- Robert Shea
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar. -- Stephen King
What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game. -- Arsene Wenger
Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work -- Mikhail Botvinnik
Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving) Ã? Investment (time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base) = Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance) -- Tom Rath

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