Roy H. Williams Quotes
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
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I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.
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Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.
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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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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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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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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.
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I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
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Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
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It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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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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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
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I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.
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We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and oppression; we would seek allies, of whatever colour, as long as they were totally agreed on our liberation aims.
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With continued prayer and an equally-determined commitment to action for needed anti-violence reforms, let us resolve to work toward a new era in which every American child and every adult are protected from the ravages of brutality, safe and secure in our homes and schools and communities.
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My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service.
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The attitude of giving a full commitment to the partnership will usually result in getting the same commitment in return.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.
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I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler.
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God is love, and His law is love. Its two great principles are love to God and love to man.
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It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.
