Top 48 Colvin Quotes
#1. In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn
Colvin, Sarah McLachlan ... now enter Maia Sharp.
Art Garfunkel
#2. Think it is just a matter of ... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she has. Believe me, that girl has done everything except stand behind the cash register at Tower and take the money.
Christine Lavin
#3. People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.
Graham Nash
#4. Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else BY GEOFF COLVIN
Daniel H. Pink
#5. Oh you kissed the soul of a rebel
In a Yankee girl
You got to me
I heard you callin' 'round the world
From your back roads
Tennessee
Shawn Colvin
#6. The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.
Shawn Colvin
#8. deliberate practice requires that one identify certain sharply defined elements of performance that need to be improved, and then work intently on them.
Geoff Colvin
#9. I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.
Shawn Colvin
#10. What you really believe about the source of great performance thus becomes the foundation of all you will ever achieve
Geoff Colvin
#11. Give me some credit for the hell I've paid.
Shawn Colvin
#12. Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work!
Delia J. Colvin
#13. Tiger is born into the home of an expert golfer and confessed "golf addict" who loves to teach and is eager to begin teaching his new son as soon as possible.
Geoff Colvin
#14. What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.
Shawn Colvin
#15. The best computer programmers are much better than novices at remembering the overall structure of programs because they understand better what they're intended to do and how.
Geoff Colvin
#16. One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
Shawn Colvin
#17. Avoiding automaticity through continual practice is another way of saying that great performers are always getting better. This is why the most devoted can stay at the top of their field for far longer than most people would think possible.
Geoff Colvin
#18. And I never saw blue like that before across the sky around the world
Shawn Colvin
#19. Someone once said, that the internet is the bathroom wall of the 21 century. And that appears to be true, especially since Bobrick transitioned to plastic laminates removing the opportunity to defame others behind those closed doors.
Delia J. Colvin
#20. What great performers have achieved is the ability to avoid doing it automatically.
Geoff Colvin
#21. John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well.
Shawn Colvin
#22. Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.
Shawn Colvin
#23. The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.
Shawn Colvin
#24. I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do.
Shawn Colvin
#25. you learn ten times more in a crisis than during normal times.
Geoff Colvin
#26. I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.
Claudette Colvin
#27. If you set a goal of becoming an expert in your business, you would immediately start doing all kinds of things you don't do now.
Geoff Colvin
#28. Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.
Marie Colvin
#29. The cash held by US companies are hitting all time records. Companies are using some of this money to buy back their own stock at record rates. When a company is doing this it is saying to it's investors: We don't have any good ideas what to do with this, so here--maybe you do.
Geoff Colvin
#30. When top-level chess players look at a board, they see words, not letters. Instead of seeing twenty-five pieces, they may see just five or six groups of pieces. That's why it's easy for them to remember where all the pieces are.
Geoff Colvin
#31. As the shift in valuable skills continues, organizations are finding not only that they have no jobs for the disengaged and socially inept, but that such people are toxic to the enterprise and must be removed.
Geoff Colvin
#32. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?
Marie Colvin
#33. Landing on your butt twenty thousand times is where great performance comes from.
Geoff Colvin
#34. Top performers understand their field at a higher level than average performers do, and thus have a superior structure for remembering information about it.
Geoff Colvin
#36. Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.
Shawn Colvin
#37. I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.
Shawn Colvin
#38. Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can.
Marie Colvin
#39. This world's a blessing and a beast everyday.
Shawn Colvin
#40. You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any?
Shawn Colvin
#42. We will achieve freatness only through an enormous amount of hard work over many years.
Geoff Colvin
#43. Great performance is in our hands far more than most of us ever suspected.
Geoff Colvin
#44. The best performers set goals that are not about the outcome but about the process of reaching the outcome.
Geoff Colvin
#45. In our own lives, we will try something new and, finding that it isn't easy for us, we conclude we don't have a talent for it.
Geoff Colvin
#46. There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.
Shawn Colvin
#47. even if high-IQ people do better than low-IQ people when first trying a task that's new to them, the relationship tends to get weaker and may eventually disappear completely as they work at the task and get better at it.
Geoff Colvin
#48. I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.
Shawn Colvin
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