Students Talents Quotes

#1. High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#2. Power is a phenomenon created by group dynamics, never solely by the "powerful man.

Bettina Stangneth

#3. For you cannot live in New York City very long and not be conscious of the niceties of being rich - the city is, after all, an ecstatic exercise in merchandising - and one evening of his visit to Venezuela Sutherland sat straight up when he read a line of Santayana's: Money is the petrol of life.

Andrew Holleran

#4. Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

Joseph Joubert

#5. The two-thirds rule [of the Senate], which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence.

Thomas A. Bailey

#6. The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.

Peter J. Carroll

#7. There was a form of contentment in doing what she could and not worrying about the rest.

Lena Goldfinch

#8. There is enough work for everybody.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. As I see it, the aims of education are to enable students to understand the world around them and the talents within them so that they can become fulfilled individuals and active, compassionate citizens.

Ken Robinson

#10. People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

Dolly Parton

#11. The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

Thomas Ligotti

#12. If you show people you don't care, they'll return the favor. Show them you care, they'll reciprocate.

Lee Bolman

#13. The girl who I will marry will have a heart so wise that in the hollow of her eyes my heart will want to tarry. The girl who will be mine will have skin so soft and tender, and when it comes December, her skin will be my wine.

Jacques Brel

#14. Education is the system that's supposed to develop our natural abilities and enable us to make our way in the world. Instead, it is stifling the individual talents and abilities of too many students and killing their motivation to learn. There's a huge irony in the middle of all of this.

Ken Robinson

#15. Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

Conrad Burns

#16. My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

Emily Browning

#17. I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

Dyan Cannon

#18. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#19. I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold.

Clifton B. Cates