Quotes About Talent

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.

My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together.

By the work one knows the workman.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Hard work is for people short on talent.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.