Charles Rollin Quotes

Talents constitute our very essence.

Charles Rollin

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• Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

  

  T.I.
  • You
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Inspiration
  • Philosophy
  • Look

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

  

  Barry Bonds
  • You
  • Talent
  • Just

• 'Fight Master' is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That's something it has in common with 'The Ultimate Fighter,' which has always been like a farm league for the UFC, a place to develop new talent.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Chance
  • Fight
  • Talent

• From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Talent

• I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Up
  • Me
  • Talent

• I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Work
  • Real
  • Boy

• Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Acting
  • Talent
  • Perseverance

• Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Know
  • Discipline
  • Talent

• The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Ambitious
  • Monstrosity

• I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Friends
  • Intelligent

• Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Sports
  • Essence
  • Through

• So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'

  

  Raekwon
  • Real
  • Help
  • Attention

• You can never have enough talent.

  

  Pat Riley
  • You
  • Enough
  • Talent

• I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Talent

• It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • People
  • Passion
  • Talent

• I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Different
  • Think
  • Career

• I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Him

• I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. … Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy,' you know? And it's really true. … Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Famous
  • Creativity
  • Talent

• What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Artist
  • Essence
  • Mechanisms

• People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • People
  • Heart
  • Rose

• Talents constitute our very essence.

  

  Charles Rollin
  • Talent
  • Essence