Joseph Cook Quotes
It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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'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.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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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.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.
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You can never have enough talent.
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I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.
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Here is a fine field for talent.
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You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.
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Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
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In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
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It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
