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.

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

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

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

I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis.

…how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

No matter how talented or skilled you are, you will never reach your full potential without expert guidance.

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

You owe it to yourself to develop the real you out of your own gifts and enlarge your territories on influence. Don’t live in your own shadow. Live in your own you!

Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him

I’m just going out there and doing what I have to do. There’s a lot of good talent on this team and I’ll be glad to go to (Double-A) Arkansas. I’m going to work hard...

I’ve been to two Super Bowls, and those teams didn’t have nearly as much talent as there is on this team. We had a great week of practice. But this game is about what you...

I have been blessed with luck, talent and opportunities, now it is my duty to add the hardworking element.

Ray is a very smart player. Obviously he’s got great talent, and we’re hoping he’s able to come back and make a difference.

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I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according...

Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents.

Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India, saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech: that everyone will come to us. Wake up: Because the numbers are showing...

To sparkle its enough to be a Star, but to shine you have to be at Sky.

If we make a small commitment towards keeping our talent alive, one day it becomes a beautiful gift, which nourishes us, makes our lives complete.

We were very high on her as a talent and person, but it just didn’t work out. We couldn’t get her into the rotation.

I wasn’t good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

What’s more, we had discovered that people have several times more potential for growth, when they invest energy in developing their strenghts instead of correcting their deficiencies.

Talent is useful, but always keep your dagger sharp.

Money follows art. Money wants what it can’t buy. Class and talent. And remember while there’s a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.

Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling for what was right. It was hard to explain how I...

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

Birds do not attend flight schools; Rivers do not attend flowing colleges; Fishes do not attend swimming conferences; Trees do not attend fruit bearing seminars… There is something that you can do automatically that someone...

I always thought I’d make a great backup singer. I don’t practice. It’s just pure talent.

Her father sat her down and spoke to her with great seriousness. “You are not a witch, Katerina. There is magic in the world, and some of it is wholesome, and some of it is...

Share your skills, inspire a change.

It’s one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!… That’s a real talent

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured – this is the truth of the whole matter.

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

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

Guys like Kerry and Kenyon were such special, gifted defenders. But we still have enough talent to be an elite defensive team.

I think that Bob represents a big jump forward in talent.

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is...