Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I’ve found, however, is work.

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

In many ways an artist is his work. It’s difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn’t work, I can...

Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Hi, I’m Kobe Bryant. And I have decided to take my talent to, uh… I have decided to skip college and take my talent to the NBA.

If talent without hard work was a dead-end street,talent with hard work could only be a highway.

it’s all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.

Talent can take you so far; Hardwork can take you ANYWHERE.

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

…because talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

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I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go...

It’s a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

You should never do everything for free because you won’t be able to survive alone or in comfort. But you should never charge for everything or too much because neither will the people who are...

I think everyone is very disappointed. With the talent we had in our clubhouse, we should have put a better charge into it than we did. I want to do this again. But it’s going...

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy’s trenches, and if, once in this crater,...

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

We need systems like this for the simple fact that we need to attract the very best talent we can. So we need a very responsive and modern personnel system so we can attract people,...

I quit because I was good, and when you’re good and a girl at something, you should be suspicious.’‘Of what?’‘Of what part of yourself you didn’t know you were selling.

My friends say I’m a fool to think that you’re the one for me, I guess I’m just a sucker for love. (love love) ‘Cause honsetly the truth is that you know I’m never leaving,...

They take Australian talent overseas, develop it and try to get a major label to pick them up. So we were really lucky to sign with them. They sent us over the top.

So far it’s worked well on several fronts. We have better team chemistry, the talent level is up and we will be able to produce a better product on the field.

Talent don’t need affiliation.

His whole being, his whole life was awakened in one instant, as if youth returned to him, as if the extinguished sparks of talent blazed up again. The blindfold suddenly fell from his eyes. God!...

I’m pleased with the talent level. We have tough guys, we have big guys, we have fast guys. Just some real talented guys.

Truth recognizes truth, just as a man with real talent is the first to recognize another with real talent. Likewise, superficiality attracts others with an artificial surface. Only the superficial applaud the superficial. A man...

It was a fair trade because there was tremendous talent on both sides. The Red Sox are getting more established talent, but the Marlins are getting tremendous upside talent and affordable talent. One side was...

Everyone is alone. Everyone is empty. People no longer have need of others. You can always find a spare for any talent. Any relationship can be replaced. I had gotten bored of a world like...

You cannot be anything you want to be – but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.

Find the most talented person in the room, and if it’s not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful. If you ever find that you’re the most talented...

People, who have known a person for many days but could never spot or appreciate his hidden talent in the first place, are likely to raise their suspicions on seeing him ever winning laurels in...

She looked as if she were in the middle of posing for an unbelievably glamorous photo shoot. Then again, she always did. It was her talent. Clary, however, was staring stubbornly up into Isabelle’s face...

Son, you never know who will step up with the brains and talent in a time of need and be the right one for the job.

When it comes to competing with the best and brightest in whatever your talents or educational skills are, you have to have the confidence within yourself that you are able to achieve.

The tragedy in life to mourn over is the death of what lies within a person who is still alive. The death of a potential is a mess of destiny!

If careful attention is paid to the reality, we will see clearly, the real shortage is of the right skills, rather than of jobs. If the right skills are developed, the right start-ups and other...

Every man, every woman, every child has some talent, some power, some opportunity of getting good and doing good. Each day offers some occasion for using this talent. As we use it, it gradually increases,...

As I mentioned briefly on the phone, the best thing about the Air Chrysalis is that it’s not an imitation of anyone. It has absolutely none of the usual new writer’s sense of ‘I want...

Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give them a reason.

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God

He’s a huge talent, and so far I’ve been very impressed with him. After spending 13 years in Detroit, it’s going to take him awhile to get used to what we do, and for us...

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain...

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

You always get that energy, you just want to be heard, to go out, do your thing and show people that we have just as much talent here as everywhere else.

We never expected or desired to produce a Byron, a Napoleon, or a Michelangelo.” You know you’ve reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling...

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one’s nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

“Crazy,” he muttered softly, “how much I need you.”Crazy, how something like that can feel like a kick in the chest, can hurt that much, can suck all the air right out of your body...