Talents Sunday Quotes

Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently as five years ago. But in the bleak light of full adulthood, which is to one's early twenties as Sunday morning is to Saturday night, he can clearly see what it really amounts to: He's broke and unemployed.

Your calling is in what you often think about

Yes, I was a twenty-nine year old woman who lived with her mother. One who didn’t do drugs, party, or have sex. I read books, drank the occasional beer on a hot afternoon, and did the Times crossword puzzle on Sunday afternoons. I hadn’t attended college, I wasn’t particularly gorgeous, and I often forgot to shave my legs. On the upside, I could cook some mean dumplings and bring myself to orgasm within five minutes. Not at the same time, mind you. I wasn’t that talented.

Be strategic and purposeful in whatever you do

Intensity is the extreme application of force and strength

Your calling should bless and affect the lives of others for good

Some mothers seem to have the capacity and energy to make their children's clothes, bake, give piano lessons, go to Relief Society, teach Sunday School, attend parent-teacher association meetings, and so on. Other mothers look upon such women as models and feel inadequate, depressed, and think they are failures when they make comparisons... Sisters, do not allow yourselves to be made to feel inadequate or frustrated because you cannot do everything others seem to be accomplishing. Rather, each should assess her own situation, her own energy, and her own talents, and then choose the best way to mold her family into a team, a unit that works together and supports each other. Only you and your Father in Heaven know your needs, strengths, and desires. Around this knowledge your personal course must be charted and your choices made.

If you want to be prosperous begin to sow into your abilities, gifting’s, talents, self-development and self-education

There are many things that have distorted the person inside you from what you were created to be

Time wasters are life wasters

Your calling is concealed in you and has to be discovered by you alone

Your calling is buried in your background and life experience

You can discover your calling through the eyes of others

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

We underestimate ourselves, we do not believe in our strength, abilities, and talents and we have a distorted vision of ourselves

The secret of all greatness is to discover what you were born to do in life and then do it. You must find out your gifts and talents.

Always take an inventory of your life

Purposefully dedicating time into developing yourself is one of the keys to being effective in life

Combine your calling with your passion to achieve great results

Your intensity increases your net worth

When you are intense, you will do things persistently and with speed

There's a reason why I tell this story. To me these Sunday painters represent myo—the strangeness of beauty—an idea that transcendence can be found in what's common and small. Rather than wishing for singularity and celebrity and genius (and growing all gloomy in its absence), these painters recognize the ordinariness of their talents and remain undaunted. It's the blessings in life, not in self, that they mean to express. And therein lies the transcendence. For as people pursue their plain, decent goals, as they whittle their crude flutes, paint their flat landscapes, make unexceptional love to their spouses—in their numbers across cultures and time, in their sheer tenacity as in the face of a random universe they perform their small acts of awareness and appreciation—there is a mysterious, strange beauty.

Be a slave of your potential and not a slave of circumstances

Anyone who wants to be great and influential person should be ready to pay the highest price in order to develop their gifts and submit themselves to this gift

To submit one’s self to one’s gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one’s gift

Sow into the gift and talent God has given to you to rip an harvest

He created you with your special features because he was aware of your destination

Go and venture! You should not give up after failures because this gift does not belong only to you

The doctrine of waiting for confirmation is one of the greatest time killers

If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it

You need intensity to be quick

You need focus and concentration to be effective in life

The amount of value produced at a certain period depends on the level of focus used to attain it

Use your resources wisely and spend quality time on developing your resources

Always have a list of what you want to achieve in life

If you are not living in active consciousness, you will always be lost

Always live in the here and now

Our ability to convert time determines how great we will become

The ability to be intense in whatever you do is a key factor in reclaiming your lost years

Your intensity increases your productivity

Learn to do everything with speed to be efficient and effective

Speed is the ability to take a decision in a few seconds

Every one of us is born with a special gift, talent, purpose or calling

God is not looking at your abilities, talents, self-worth to be qualified to be his disciple

Talent is not enough, hard work makes the difference

Even our church growth can happen without Him. Let’s be honest: If you combine a charismatic speaker, a talented worship band, and some hip, creative events, people will attend your church. Yet this does not mean that the Holy Spirit of God is actively working and moving in the lives of the people who are coming. It simply means that you have created a space that is appealing enough to draw people in for an hour or two on Sunday.

In the parable of the talents, the three servants are called to render an account of how they have used the gifts entrusted to them. The first two used their talents boldly and resourcefully. The third, who prudently wraps his money and buries it, typifies the Christian who deposits his faith in an hermetic container and seals the lid shut. He or she limps through life on childhood memories of Sunday school and resolutely refuses the challenge of growth and spiritual maturity. Unwilling to take risks, this person loses the talent entrusted to him or her. “The master wanted his servants to take risks. He wanted them to gamble with his money.”5

Religion has torn a lot of people to pieces. Whenever it has embarked on a quest for purity, crusaded for certainty, strived for survival, religion has done so at a great cost, asking so many humans to ignore their conscience, to pretend to believe things they don't really believe, to squeeze into ill-fitting gender roles and cultural norms, to snuff out desires and squander talents, to live one way during the week and another on Sunday morning, to sacrifice sons and daughters on the altar of conformity, to feign certainty, to fake happiness, to strive for perfection, to look the other way in the presence of injustice - indeed, to renounce some aspect of their very humanity.

Religious people, the “people of God,” the people of the impossible, impassioned by a love that leaves them restless and unhinged, panting like the deer for running streams, as the psalmist says (Ps. 42:1), are impossible people. In every sense of the word. If, on any given day, you go into the worst neighborhoods of the inner cities of most large urban centers, the people you will find there serving the poor and needy, expending their lives and considerable talents attending to the least among us, will almost certainly be religious people — evangelicals and Pentecostalists, social workers with deeply held religious convictions, Christian, Jewish, and Islamic, men and women, priests and nuns, black and white. They are the better angels of our nature. They are down in the trenches, out on the streets, serving the widow, the orphan, and the stranger, while the critics of religion are sleeping in on Sunday mornings. That is because religious people are lovers; they love God, with whom all things are possible. They are hyper-realists, in love with the impossible, and they will not rest until the impossible happens, which is impossible, so they get very little rest. The philosophers, on the other hand, happen to be away that weekend, staying in a nice hotel, reading unreadable papers on “the other” at each other, which they pass off as their way of serving the wretched of the earth. Then, after proclaiming the death of God, they jet back to their tenured jobs, unless they happen to be on sabbatical leave and are spending the year in Paris.

Pastor Joel Osteen Oprah: I heard a sermon that you preached on the power of “I am.” And that sermon literally changed how I spoke power into my own life. I was shooting The Butler. I had heard that sermon. I was exhausted. We’d been shooting and shooting and shooting. And your voice came into my head—that whatever follows “I am” will determine what your experience will be. And so I literally thought, I’m going to try that because I’m exhausted. And I started saying, “I am getting my second wind. I am going to feel so much better by midnight, I’m going to want to shoot all night.” And I’m telling you, I started to feel differently. And I couldn’t believe that it happened so quickly. Pastor Joel Osteen: It’s an incredible principle, I don’t think we realize that what follows “I am,” we’re inviting into our life. You know, you say, “I am tired,” “I am frustrated,” “I am lonely,” you’ve invited that in. So the principle is to turn it around and invite what you want into your life. Oprah: So whatever follows “I am” will eventually find you. Joel: Yeah. I think a lot of times you’re going to say how you feel. I am lonely. I am tired. There’s a balance to it. I don’t think you’re denying the facts. Otherwise, I’m just hiding my head in the sand. It’s not so much that, it’s just not magnifying the negative. I talk about “I am the masterpiece,” “I am fearfully and wonderfully made,” “I am strong,” “I am talented.” That is speaking more to the core of what God put in each one of us. He has equipped us, he has empowered us. We have what we need to fulfill our destiny. But I do think that we have to bring it out. And you can’t bring it out being against yourself. And I think that is what keeps us from our destiny. Oprah: So we’ve heard that phrase, “Speaking truth to power.” It feels like when you understand that whatever follows “I am” is going to eventually find you, that if you start speaking all the positive aspects of yourself—“I am secure,” “I am valuable,” “I am approved,” “I am determined,” “I am generous”—when you start allowing what you want to be your truth, you begin to speak truth, the truth of “I am” to the power of what can be.

What if she had already done it to herself? What if she had shaved away from the surface of her brain whatever synaptic interlacings had formed her gift? She remembered reading somewhere that some pop artist once bought an original drawing by Michelangelo—and had taken a piece of art gum and erased it, leaving blank paper. The waste had shocked her. Now she felt a similar shock as she imagined the surface of her own brain with the talent for chess wiped away. At home she tried a Russian game book, but she couldn’t concentrate. She started going through her game with Foster, setting the board up in the kitchen, but the moves of it were too painful. That damned Stonewall, and the hastily pushed pawn. A patzer’s move. Bad chess. Hungover chess. The telephone rang, but she didn’t answer. She sat at the board and wished for a moment, painfully, that she had someone to call. Harry Beltik would be back in Louisville. And she didn’t want to tell him about the game with Foster. He would find out soon enough. She could call Benny. But Benny had been icy after Paris, and she did not want to talk to him. There was no one else. She got up wearily and opened the cabinet next to the refrigerator, took down a bottle of white wine and poured herself a glassful. A voice inside her cried out at the outrage, but she ignored it. She drank half of it in one long swallow and stood waiting until she could feel it. Then she finished the glass and poured another. A person could live without chess. Most people did. When she awoke on the sofa the next morning, still wearing the Paris clothes she had worn when losing the game to Foster, she was frightened in a new way. She could sense her brain being physically blurred by alcohol, its positional grasp gone clumsy, its penetration clouded. But after breakfast she showered and changed and then poured herself a glass of wine. It was almost mechanical; she had learned to cut off thought as she did it. The main thing was to eat some toast first, so the wine wouldn’t burn her stomach. She kept drinking for days, but the memory of the game she had lost and the fear of what she was doing to the sharp edge of her gift would not go away, except when she was so drunk that she could not even think. There was a piece in the Sunday paper about her, with one of the pictures taken that morning at the high school, and a headline reading CHESS CHAMP DROPS FROM TOURNEY. She threw the paper away without reading the article. Then one morning after a night of dark and confusing dreams she awoke with an unaccustomed clarity: if she did not stop drinking immediately she would ruin what she had. She had allowed herself to sink into this frightening murk. She had to find a foothold somewhere to push herself free of it. She would have to get help.

That’s it. That’s Bob’s game. His drill, while sometimes fabulously complex, is really quite simple—make a habit of doing things others weren’t willing to do. There are plenty of people with some amount of talent. Are you willing to go farther, work harder, be more committed and dedicated than anyone else? If others were inclined to take Sunday off, well, that just meant we might be one-seventh better. For five years, from 1998 to 2003, we did not believe in days off. I had one because of a snowstorm, two more due to the removal of wisdom teeth. Christmas? See you at the pool. Thanksgiving? Pool. Birthdays? Pool. Sponsor obligations? Work them out around practice time.

On that September Sunday, when the excited Paul went to meet Rimbaud, the worst began. Young Rimbaud, that great talent, that poetic genius whom all of Paris supposedly awaited, must have missed Paul at the train station because he arrived alone. To our astonishment, maman and I did not see any genius but rather an uncouth and unkempt boy in shabby, dirty attire, who spoke strangely with an Ardennes accent, if he spoke at all, for he hardly said anything. He had no luggage, which raised suspicion with my mother. A person without luggage was not to be trusted. But he had beautiful blue eyes that looked shy, or so I thought at the time. Meanwhile, those innocent eyes gazed at the world cunningly and maliciously, as it would soon become apparent. Behind that childlike, pretty face of a doll hid a corrupted monster that shattered our family happiness.

All great and successful people stayed alone with themselves to develop their gift

If you work on yourself intellectually, you will be able to realize your potential

If you work on yourself spiritually, you will be able to realize your potential

Discover your gift and talent, then start a process of production with it if you desire to be prosperous

Begin to increase your gift, talent, potentials, self-development if you want to be prosperous

Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him

Until you begin to sow yourself, ability, gifts, talent into that land God has called you into, prosperity will then be yours

To be prosperous you must discover your gifting’s, potentials and talents

Only when you cultivate your talents and gifts you prosper

We all have some talents and abilities that differentiate us from others

Thus, in achieving ones goals, one improves, develops and discovers his potentials

So, each of us has a special gift and it takes time to discover it

When you discover the gift inside you, you have to submit yourself to the gift and improve it

Discover your gift if you don’t want to live the life of an ordinary person

You will be influential and powerful in the field of your gift and talent

The key to your success in the world is to discover the field of your gift

In order to make our gifts perfect, you need to work on yourself but it hurts

If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential

If you submit to your gift, people will seek and invite you, you will get well paid because you have perfected your gift

Rich people don’t work for money, they are doing what they like to do; they devote themselves to a job they love and do not live waiting for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but work passionately until the end of their lives

Find your gift, the thing you were created for, the thing that inspires you and the thing you are fond of doing, and the thing you are doing better than others

Your calling is to serve people and humanity with this gift

Only you are responsible for the development of your gift and for its brilliant after the process of its refinement

You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them

You must find your own gift, the activity you are fond of and the activity you were created for

You must become aware of the need to serve humanity with your gift

You were created to serve people with your gift

You are a unique individual with your own special features that you need to carry on your life mission

To have a mission is to find your own gift

To have a mission is to find a thing you were created for

To have a mission is to find a thing that inspires you the most

To have a mission is to find the thing that you are fond of doing, a thing that you can do better than others

Realize that your gift does not belong merely to you

You are called to serve people and humanity with your talent

Answer the question “ what am I living for?” and become a master in this field, serve others with your gift, because you were created exactly with this goal

You were born on this planet with a definite purpose and the entire world is in need of the gift you have

If you do not carry out your mission, your gift to the world will be buried with other riches

People pretend to be other people because they have never thought of their true selves

Every man was created a one- and- only individual, as a person with a specific gift

The key to your success on planet earth is to find the field where your gift would be of the highest benefit

Your gift is what you were created to be

Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself

Your gift will make a place for you in the world

When you discover your gift and develop it, the world will start looking for you

You should look inside of yourself and see the person who is there

You need to maximize your Gods given potential through the power of your spirit, your inner core, your values and principles on which your life is based

There are gifts and talents that have not yet been used and power which has not been applied