William Allen White Quotes

The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

It takes extraordinary times to make an ordinary man brilliant.

Only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso or read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them, and yet at his heart, he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all.

It's just the way I'm set up, being that once-in-a-generation, once-in-a-lifetime, once-in-an-era type of star.

Greatness is accomplishing the unrequired - doing what is right beyond what is expected.

It is amazing to win an event but to do it with the best standard ever been known in a final is incredible.

Guys like me come along very seldom in the wrestling business. You can count 'em on a couple of fingers.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

Messi's like a PlayStation. He can take advantage of every mistake we make. He made the impossible possible. He has something exceptional. He has six or seven years in front of him, touchwood that nothing happens to him, and he can reach unbelievable levels.

Take a look people, take a good look at greatness!

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.

I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.

I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona.

I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.

Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

There is a big difference between being good and being great.

Duncan Edwards is the one person who, even today, I really felt inferior to. I've never know anybody so gifted and strong and powerful with the presence that he had.

I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.