Surround Yourself With Talent Quotes

#1. If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

Jake M. Johnson

#2. How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.

Tamra Davis

#3. My time was my responsibility. It was up to me and me alone to decide how I wanted to use and order my time.

M. Scott Peck

#4. Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.

Eileen Wilks

#5. Breathing is my best ally. By doing simple breathing exercises, I can quickly come back to center and feel more grounded.

Gisele Bundchen

#6. You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

Joe Lo Truglio

#7. Rights are more reliable than the kindness of someone who has absolute power over you.

Rebecca Solnit

#8. Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

Muhammad Ali

#9. By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential by many Alaskans: a large-caliber rifle, map and compass, an ax. This has been regarded as evidence not just of stupidity but of the even greater sin of arrogance.

Jon Krakauer

#10. That's the unforgivable sin, you know."
"What is?"
"Refusing to forgive someone."
"Refusing to forgive someone is the unforgivable sin?" I asked incredulously.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#11. The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.

James Stockdale

#12. The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.

Frank Lucas

#13. Part of the talent of any company is to surround yourself with people who have good spirit and help you do more and more things.

Marc Jacobs

#14. Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.

Janeane Garofalo

#15. I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

Atom Egoyan