Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

If you are good enough, you should play.

Ultimately, it's your talent that counts.

Can't win without talent, you know.

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

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're playing at our level of ability.

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

There are many talented people.

If I have the choice between experience and talent, I'm taking talent every time.

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

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

Ability is active power, or power to perform.

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.

Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness.

Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Look for competence not claims.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Merit should count more than academic background.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

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