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...

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.

Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their connotation of ”the starving artist”...

Cleverness is a false presumption’, Doc had explained, ‘it is like being a natural skater, you are so busy doing tricks to impress that you do not see where the thin ice is and before...

I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted...

I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

The emptiness of your pocket is not a recipe for you to discount the value of your passion!

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy’s Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]

The most talented people are always the nicest.

The difference in the game was our speed and our talent.

My feeling is that, because there are more injuries, because of free agency, because it is a dilution (of talent), it doesn’t matter who’s the best team during the season. All that matters is who’s...

to share and build talent.

When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows.

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

It always helps to surround yourself with talent.

…bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius – not the display of talent…

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

Any man who bears the ability of a polymath shall not be interfered by specialty, he needs discipline to manage his behaviors and nurture his creativity.

What a waste of time it would be to insist that everyone develop each of the specialties we call upon to an equal level. We’d get bogged down in remedial training programs, trying to get...

How could I explain why I’d acted that way? How could I explain how scary it was, to find out that I needed her so much? Was I supposed to tell her how she’d changed...

who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.

I beat Bob Dylan in a talent contest.

In some ways, it’s easier to recognize your power when you’re calm and untroubled than when you’re distressed. Search out your talent in quiet moments. Don’t push too hard. You’ve done it once. You can...

Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men, carried to the summit of the edifice, draw and put...

Kayla is an incredible athlete. I can’t say enough about her talent. There are times when we just can’t defend her, but at least she made tough shots. She worked for it.

Talents are seeds of greatness. With big dreams well dispensed in form of achievements, you can pick money from people’s pockets and they will never get the guts to call you a thief.

We’ve always had chances for brilliance. The talent is there but it’s just how quickly it comes together.

I have a hidden talent. I hid it in the dungeon. Why don’t you go down there and have a look at it? I’ll lock up after you.

He (Walcott) is a talent,

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,’ [T.S.] Eliot wrote. ‘But less talent was wasted.

This year’s finalists probably represent the highest level of overall talent we’ve ever seen on the show. With great voices and unique personalities, we have ten real contenders to be America’s next NASHVILLE STAR.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog’s lifestyle.

She understood that it had never just been about talent: it had also always been about money. Ethan was brilliant at what he did, and he might well have made it even if Ash’s father...

There is a lot of talent in this clubhouse.

It’s just a matter of being sharper out there. Obviously, we have the talent, and we know what to do, and we know what we’re capable of. We’re not doing it out on the field....

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

Everything have a foundation, even your fame; It started as little support from your family and immediate friends; Don’t forget that because they saw the raw talent before everyone saw the polished act. Stay True...

Il te restera toujours tes rèves pour réinventer le monde que l’on t’a confisqué.

We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.

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...