A Quote by Guy Kawasaki

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

Guy Kawasaki

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Compensate Grind Lack Life My Life Out Secret Talent The Secret Of Willingness

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Guy Kawasaki
American - Businessman
Born: August 30, 1954

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out.

Guy Kawasaki

Someone once said that death is God's way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out.

Guy Kawasaki

Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Leo Buscaglia

There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer.

Harold Prince

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

Eric Hoffer

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

Eric Hoffer

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

Marco Pierre White

no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

Rachel Field

I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.

Richard Bausch

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

Kurt Vonnegut

Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.

Madame de Stael

It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.

Rosalind Russell

It is called working your ass off. The difference is what you are willing to sacrifice. For every writer who wants balance in their life, there is a guy like me who gives up a lot to make their dreams come true. There is always going to be someone out there that knows they have to compensate for maybe having less talent with harder work and preparation.