Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.Mary Kay Ash
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.Lin Dan
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.Elton John
There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you.Derek Jeter
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.Elon Musk
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.A. J. Liebling
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.Stephen King
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.Erica Jong
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.Dave Gibbons
If you're good enough, you're old enough: that's what everyone says. When a talented young player emerges, his age doesn't matter; people want to see him in the team. So why, when you become older, is the assumption that you are no longer good enough?Peter Crouch
I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.Clint Eastwood
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.Christina Aguilera
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.Ayn Rand
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.John Jay Chapman
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.Larry Bird
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.Sydney Smith
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.Mark Cuban
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?Nelson Mandela
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.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Talent is nothing without dedication and discipline, and dedication and discipline is a talent in itself.Luke Campbell
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.Dr. Dre
You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.Malorie Blackman
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.Fred Saberhagen
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.Rene Angelil