Quotes About Effort

Man, you can have all of the talent in the world, but the hard work overrules that.

Destiny plays an important part, but talent and hard work is also important.

I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.

Talent alone is never enough.

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

In one world, effort is a bad thing. It, like failure, means you're not smart or talented. If you were, you wouldn't need effort. In the other world, effort is what makes you smart or talented.

I have friends that are super talented, that are far more talented than I am in certain areas, but it just doesn't happen for them. Sometimes you feel guilty for your success because you know people who deserve it way more.

If you're talented and hardworking, great - good for you. You're gonna make it; you're gonna go places. But if you're talented and don't have the work element behind it, the guy that works harder is going to eventually outpace you and outrun you.

I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.

Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.

Everyone has opportunities and different doors that are opened to them in different ways. In the end, if you're talented you'll get work, if you're not, you won't, so it doesn't really matter who you know.

I also played two years of high school football but I wasn't very, how shall I say it, talented.

You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

I was not a very good football player. My coach hated me - I don't know why, I guess it's probably because I wasn't very talented.

I was never the most talented player on the field.

I tell my children, some people can be more talented than you. Some people can be faster, stronger, but there is never a reason for anyone to outwork you.

I don't think I'm the most talented musician or the best singer, but I work really, really hard.

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making.

Whatever sport I played - rugby, rowing - there were always naturally talented people who were better than me.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

You can't control the talents He gives you, no doubt about that. But you can control the effort you put forth with those talents.

I know there are many great talents, much more talented than I am, but they haven't been able to achieve what I have.

A skill is something that you aren't inherently talented at and that isn't an effortless action, the way your thinking talents might be, but is something you can become excellent at nonetheless.