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

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

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

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Age is never a factor if talent is there.

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Having the talent and having the right mindset together can make you unstoppable.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list.

I have admired Taufik Hidayat for being exceptionally talented and Hendrawan for being a great player only because of his hard work and dedication. I have always looked up to them as players.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Talent is nothing without dedication and discipline, and dedication and discipline is a talent in itself.

You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen. Dr.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

To become a superstar, it's not only the voice. You have to have all these things: talent, determination, be ready to work, ready to understand.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.