Ray Walston Quotes

We are all more capable than we think we are.

Don't let anything but your talent affect your success.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Win with ability, not with numbers.

I didn't realize the ceiling that I had, and I don't think a lot of players understand what they're capable of. Some of them dream of what they're capable of, but you don't really understand until you get in the moment and you give it everything you got and see in the end where you can end up.

You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

You just kind of go and do your own thing. Sometimes it's really hard to compare apples and oranges, so you don't really think of it that way. You just perform to your fullest potential and hope everybody else does too. And however it works out, it works out.

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside.

In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last.

None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment

Talent is very hot.

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.