Joseph Cook Quotes

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

Joseph Cook

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• Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

  

  T.I.
  • You
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • You
  • Talent
  • Just

• 'Fight Master' is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That's something it has in common with 'The Ultimate Fighter,' which has always been like a farm league for the UFC, a place to develop new talent.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Chance
  • Fight
  • Talent

• It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Lies
  • Taste
  • Mediocrity

• I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Work
  • Real
  • Boy

• One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Learned
  • Manager

• Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Talent
  • Intelligence

• Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can play till 32 or 34 with same fitness and without injuries, he will come to a point where not even Vivian Richards neither Sachin Tendulkar had such a record.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Same
  • Talent
  • Fitness

• New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Know
  • Discipline
  • Talent

• The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Ambitious
  • Monstrosity

• There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Good
  • Women
  • Talent

• You can never have enough talent.

  

  Pat Riley
  • You
  • Enough
  • Talent

• I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Talent

• I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Different
  • Think
  • Career

• Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Soul
  • Talent
  • Destroys

• If you desire ease, forsake learning.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • You
  • Desire
  • Learning

• If I saw my friend's boyfriend flirting with someone else, I would definitely talk to him about what I saw. I would want to give him a chance to explain. However, depending on how major the flirting was, I would probably mention it to my friend - just to let her know what's going on.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Want
  • Know
  • Friend

• As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Life
  • Kill
  • Silent

• Think what have I got for Ireland … Something which she has wanted these past 700 years, will anyone be satisfied with this bargain, will anyone? I tell you this, early this morning I have signed my death warrant.

  

  Michael Collins
  • Death
  • Ireland
  • Bargain

• It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

  

  Joseph Cook
  • Talent
  • Mediocrity
  • Outweighs