Norman R. Augustine Quotes

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Norman R. Augustine

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• From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Purpose
  • Perspective

• My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Day
  • motivation

• I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Man
  • Beat
  • Earned

• I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • History
  • Fighting

• Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Age
  • Never
  • Talent

• 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

• Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Beat
  • Fighters

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

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Talent
  • Intelligence

• 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

• 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

• People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Like

• I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Music
  • Talent

• I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Hope

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

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Talent

• It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • People
  • Passion
  • Talent

• 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

• I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Think
  • Star
  • Start

• I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Funny
  • Environment
  • Talent

• Mind control is the process by which individual or collective freedom of choice and action is compromised by agents or agencies that modify or distort perception, motivation, affect, cognition and/or behavioral outcomes. It is neither magical nor mystical, but a process that involves a set of basic social psychological principles. … It seems to me that at the very heart of the controversy over the existence of mind control is a bias toward believing in the power of people to resist the power of situational forces, a belief in individual will power and faith to overcome all evil adversity. It is Jesus modeling resistance against the temptations of Satan, and not the vulnerability of Adam and Eve to deception. More recently, examples abound that challenge this person-power misattribution.

  

  Benjamin Zablocki
  • Freedom
  • Faith
  • Challenge

• The historian amputates reality.

  

  Gaetano Salvemini
  • Reality
  • Historian

• My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Reason
  • Ridiculous
  • Unhappy

• All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Great
  • Society
  • Single

• Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

  

  Norman R. Augustine
  • Talent
  • motivation
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