Quotes About Gift

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.

Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done (whether you like it or not).

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development

Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.

Even if your work touches one person, that's an amazing gift.

I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

If we're not a good steward of what God gives us, he takes it away. I think that's what happened. I wasn't a good steward of the gift that he gave me in this line of work. I abused it, so he took it away.

I feel like God's given me a gift that I want to steward and share with the world.

Making people laugh is the greatest gift you can give, so I'm never going to stop that.

A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.

The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.

Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.

I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never know what sort of gift is appropriate. A jar of dirt, maybe? And it's not clear to me why Earth even needs a 'day,' since a spin on its axis creates a day. That's like giving a man who owns a shoe store a gift of a pair of shoes.

The story of 'Prometheus' is the idea that if you're given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do not think you can compete.