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.

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.

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.

No matter who we are, where we live, what we look like, the circumstances of our birth or the situations we face; each of us has gifts within us. Strength, beauty, courage, compassion, hope, joy,...

Talent comes from education you had,languages you know and finally from skills you gain in your life.

…I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to toss it away so arbitrarily! But nature could not care less what we...

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.{Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this...

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...

God gave the seed, but he wants the fruits back. Pick the seeds up. Plant the best ones. He promised the rain. It will be a bumper harvest!

No one’s going to be selfish. Not this year. We can have a special year with all the talent we have here.

I’ve never seen such a competitive market for talent as in the last six months to a year. And it’s funny, you think it can never get any more competitive. And yet the next year...

You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you write, you will learn, you will improve, and you will be better than...

There is no spray can called ‘Instant Stardom’, only talent can keep you at the top.

I think he has the arm talent to do it. He can do it.

I’m really encouraged. I remember watching the spring game last year. There’s some talent on the field. We have a chance for a pretty good team.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

I’m not worried about the big guys on our bench. They’ve got talent. They’ll be OK.

It’s ridiculous, how people judge talent. Or, rather, don’t judge. They just default to what everyone else thinks.

The unified field theory that ties together Jobs personality and products begins with his most salient trait: his intensity. His silences could be as searing as his rants; he had taught himself to stare without...

To my mind, talent doesn’t really exist.

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured – we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

I know it’s tough to come back from 3-1. But other teams have done it. We have the talent to do it, too.

I didn’t know if his art was helping. But Moses’s pictures were like that, glorious and terrible. Glorious because they brought memory to life, terrible for the same reason. Time softens memories, sanding down the...

It’s an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we’re in a position to teach and mentor others.

We knew she [Sylvia] was unusual, because of the seriousness with which she was treated, the lofty importance of her job as guest managing editor, and because she was kept fast at her desk when...

Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It’s just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre.

I’ve just begun to scratch the surface of my talent, and boy does my talent itch. It’s like a red mosquito bite the size of Mars.

According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world–and...

Absolutely they’re going to be young. But we’re talking about youth and talent.

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.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel.

A creature doesn’t move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.

Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

I write because I love it, not because I excel at it. But because I write, I shall slowly excel at it.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

Yes, he scorned his family’s decadent ways, but perhaps that wasn’t so much about the money per se, but rather the wastefulness of it; the lack of energy and drive it represented, as if the...

Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.

I don’t have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn’t do my job.

Fransisco, you’re some kind of very high nobility, aren’t you?” He answered, “Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to...

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.