Pastoral Resources

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

Talent is only the starting point.

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

Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Let the path be open to talent.

Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.