Eric Burns Quotes

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

Eric Burns

• Greatness
• Potential
• Execution

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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Execution

• Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Successful
  • Execution
  • Throw

• You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Business
  • Value
  • Best

• Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Moments
  • Never
  • Greatness

• Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • History
  • True
  • Soul

• I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Future

• I have long admired Univision - a pioneer in the industry - and recognized the tremendous potential and influence of the burgeoning U.S. Hispanic population.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Long
  • Influence
  • Potential

• You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Basketball

• Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Politics
  • Greatness
  • Needed

• We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Purpose
  • Potential
  • Trials

• I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Risk
  • Year
  • Potential

• Don't hire anyone - no matter what they offer - who promises you they'll sell 'X' copies of your book. Every book is different. The best any marketing company or PR firm can do for your book is make potential readers aware of it.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Book
  • Best

• The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Word
  • Used
  • Potential

• I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Potential

• A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • You
  • Challenges

• I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • True
  • Past
  • Lies

• The strange thing about the Olympics is that delivering on your potential is always quite difficult.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Always
  • Strange
  • Potential

• The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as dispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Men
  • Power
  • Question

• Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Enemy

• So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

  

  Ernest Llewellyn Woodward
  • Heaven
  • Achievement
  • Human Race

• I went to so many sleepovers where these parents were reading the 'Book of Revelation' before bed and things like that. I would listen to that stuff, and I would sit there and say to myself, 'If God is so great and so good, why is there this list of rules?' Like, you go to hell if you don't believe in him and hold him up above everyone else.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Particular
  • Associate
  • Ramp

• Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

  

  Eric Burns
  • Greatness
  • Potential
  • Execution