Hide not your talents

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

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. - Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau

We believe that if men have the talent to invent need machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. - John F. Kennedy

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. - Cicero

If you cannot convince them, confuse them. - Harry S Truman

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. - Napoleon Bonaparte

You must lose a fly to catch a trout. - George Herbert

Laugh and the world laughs with you

Image created by ChatGPT Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. - Joan Klempner If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. - Thomas Jefferson Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. - Soren Kierkegaard Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. - Mahatma Gandhi Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. - Hippocrates, Decorum I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinio...

Birds sing after a storm

Rose Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? - Rose Kennedy You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. - Herman Melville There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. - Pablo Picasso If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way. -Jane Goodall The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. -Martin Mull A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. -John le Carre Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. -Alexandre Dumas As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust...

10 Quotes

WORDS -10 QUOTES The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. - Enrico Fermi It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward. - Lewis Carroll Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. - Alfred Hitchcock Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. - Agatha Christie The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. - Willa Cather Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. - David Rockefeller Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. - Joey Bishop If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. ...

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