#talent

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

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I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. ↗

— John Wooden

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In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#discrimination #long #long run #much #run

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent. ↗

— Norman Granz

#evaluate #go #networks #out #people

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#child #different #different way #gifted #good

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#attention #fast #god-given #god-given talent #hard

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#keep #make #stupid #talented #trying

Steve produced Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys and one more. Then he and I wrote a few songs together and became good friends. He was a talented producer. ↗

— Jimmy Griffin

#faster #few #friends #good #good friends

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#blessing #comes #great #here #him

Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#accountable #anywhere #creating #else #everyone