Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

I always like to say that you've got to... use all your talent.

We're playing at our level of ability.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

Win with ability, not with numbers.

If you're going to put me in the booth, make sure it's because I'm good enough to be there.

To give the best I can, sometimes you will be brilliant or not.

If you are good enough, you should play.

It is one thing to have quality and another to be a great player.

Having no talent is no longer enough.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.

Talent is very hot.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

At the end of the day, if you can't say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are.

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

If you're good at it, you can win.

There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. They're all different.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

I think it now comes down to whether you have the skills or not.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

I have a lot of respect for people with a lot of talent.