Quotes of Faculty - somelinesforyou

“ When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object. ”

- Hermann Hesse

“ Youth itself is a talent — a perishable talent. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. ”

- Vicomte de Chateaubriand

“ Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings.". ”

- Dave Barry

“ Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. ”

- Rebecca West

“ Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world. ”

- Christiane Collange

“ Fortune reigns in gifts of the world. - As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have as an equal opportunity to develop our talents. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Presents, I often say, endear absents. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. ”

- John Jay Chapman

“ Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. ”

- Unknown

“ The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ Life, the gift of nature, Love, the gift of life, a Kiss, the gift of Love. ”

- Drew Barrymore

“ Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. ”

- Bible

“ Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. ”

- Henry Van Dyke

“ The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven. ”

- John Dryden

“ Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”

- Stephen Hawking

“ The reason the legislation was passed (creating the stockpile and the price trigger) is to have the president have the ability at times like this to pull heating oil from that reserve. ”

- Harry Reid

“ With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ”

- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

“ The question that is so clearly in many potential parents' minds: "Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?". ”

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

“ The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver. ”

- Eleanor Hamilton

“ Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. ”

- Norman Mailer
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