Steve Garvey (Steven Patrick Garvey) Quotes

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.

Steve Garvey

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• I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • True
  • Want
  • Potential

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

  

  T.I.
  • You
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Talent

• I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Up
  • Me
  • Talent

• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Home

• I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• 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

• I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Friends
  • Intelligent

• Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Stupid
  • Hands
  • Talent

• If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Worry
  • Potential

• There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.

  

  Xavi
  • Football
  • Talent
  • Two

• The big talent is persistence.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Talent
  • Big
  • Persistence

• We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Know
  • Like
  • Potential

• You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Action
  • Goals

• I understand that mutual dissatisfaction is a factor in their collaboration. I imagine it isn’t a far step from mutual goals to mutual respect, and from there to love.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Respect
  • Goals
  • Collaboration

• I do think it's possible to change people's minds - it's one of my goals with my music.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • People
  • Music
  • Goals

• The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Action

• People have the right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you, but when I haven't talked to anyone in years, and every single article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this- that ain't my title...my bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and talents are my title.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Habit

• I do acrylic paint, oil paint, and caustic. Caustic is melted wax. It really depends on the painting, what vibe I'm looking for. That's really what matters.

  

  Autumn de Forest
  • Paint
  • Matters
  • Vibe

• I can only respond as an artist, because that’s what I am. I’m not going to become a politician all of a sudden. I am a politician in terms of the plays that I write, the way I embrace culture, the way I embrace characters that, in my particular case, have to do with the Latino world. And I embrace the Latino experience…

  

  Nilo Cruz
  • Culture
  • Artist
  • Respond

• The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.

  

  Joe Namath
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Team

• 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.

  

  Steve Garvey
  • Goals
  • Talent
  • Potential