Pastoral Resources

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.

Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable.

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.

I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.

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.

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.