Tom Peters Quotes

I've always been really curious about the limits of human capability.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Our friends must not expect us to do things we cannot do.

Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.

As much as I reiterate my affection for Elon, there is nothing Elon does that we cannot do.

We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

I realised that I have the ability to play at the highest level and started to work harder.

You have to be as smart as you can be, not smarter. You don't need to be smarter than you are.

I want to be a player that does everything he can to reach his ability, and I'll do that.

I want to improve, I have to work hard at my skills.

Remember, you are only committed to what you confess.

Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents - that person is likely to excel.