Ernest Jennings Ford (Tennessee Ernie Ford) Quotes

Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

Ernest Jennings Ford

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• I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Successful
  • Mystery

• 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

• Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Work
  • Why
  • Model

• But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Win
  • 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

• The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Actor
  • Successful
  • Lifestyle

• 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

• To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Live
  • Trying

• Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Always
  • Successful
  • Give

• The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Best
  • Successful
  • Moon

• 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

• 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

• Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • World
  • Picture
  • Successful

• A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Responsibility
  • Successful

• You can never have enough talent.

  

  Pat Riley
  • You
  • Enough
  • Talent

• It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Good
  • You
  • Question

• 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

• The big talent is persistence.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Talent
  • Big
  • Persistence

• I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • People
  • Writing
  • Successful

• Tom’s need to live out his life as a memorial to his comrades.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Memorial
  • Comrades

• In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Heart
  • True
  • Matters

• I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other ism, when a religioin is created on the subtle premise that God withholds his love and you must submit to the system to earn that love, I consider it the worst of corruptions... For centuries, the church has been telling us that if we want God to love us, we need to follow the rules. It's been far more important to focus on the sin problem than the love problem.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • God
  • Love
  • Problem

• Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

  

  Ernest Jennings Ford
  • Successful
  • Talent
  • Nurture