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.

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.

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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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

It’s hard to compare these guys against a team like Princeton. But I think they have talent, and if we don’t play well they can win the game.

And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that’s right and proper.

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

If an actor’s neither talented nor handsome, what difference is there between him and any other waiter? That reminds me, my drink needs refilling.

Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we...

This kid just has an eye at the plate, a talent for the game.

Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attention and infamy of our actions fuel us to become antiheroes. Too often do we forget: we risk...

We have quite a bit of talent at that position and we will try to do it using our depth.

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

I’ve always said we have to find unconventional ways to find talent. And if we just depend on the draft to find talent, then we would be sitting five years from now waiting for Santa...

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

The only thing–I tell you this straight from the heart–that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can’t have any proper social intercourse with those people–and that music does not have a better reputation…For I...

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

They all believed in him because of the authenticity of his musical talent and his faith in it.

A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world

Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.

Have you ever taken yourself a bit too seriously, thinking that who you are is actually defined by what you look like, how much talent you have (or don’t have), how well known you are...

Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!

Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life’s temptations come most often from that for which...

This was really an unbelievable season for us. Nine is a staggering number and shows how much talent is on this team from top to bottom. I think both teams have a very good chance...

When we dedicate our talent to serving a neighbor, it is possibly one of the highest forms of worship; something sacred transpires when we sacrifice our time and dedicate our God-given loves and talents to...

We are approaching full employment and some employers are already dreaming up perks to attract the best talent.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Help me, Lord, in times when I am uninspired to see things differently.

The spirit of an artist’s gifts can wake our own.

Most people overestimate others’ talents and underestimate their own.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it’s the key to victory over fear and it’s cousin, depression.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Whatever talent a person has should be dedicated to the rest of humanity – indeed to all living beings. Therein lies fulfillment. All men are kin. They are of the same likeness, the same build,...

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

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