The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with.

Talent is just a starting point; hard work and determination determine how far you go.

All of us at Juventus agreed Manchester United were the best side we met in the Champions League. They have so many talented young players and can only get better and better. Giggs is truly world class.

I’ve seen players with better talent than me, but they don’t have the heart.

I have two God-given talents: I can play football and I can make people laugh.

I suspect there’s a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren’t going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

I never took my talent for granted.

Talent or intelligence doesn’t matter, Its your dreams that will decied how big a person you will become.

If you have a product that people love, it’s amazing how you can attract great talent.

Talent can take you far, but hard work can take you even further.

It’s not just about talent; it’s about the will to succeed.

I think I’m hilarious. But if you don’t, that’s totally cool. My mom still laughs at my jokes, so I’ve got my target audience covered.

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.

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

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

I’ve never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I’ve viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

We must improve the quality of our education and build a talent pool.

Talent can only take you so far; hard work and dedication are the real game-changers.

My philosophy is work, work, work. The talent is in the work.

Talent without hard work is nothing.

Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.

I’m sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

You don’t win without talent, but your talent has to have purpose.

Everyone liked me when I went up on the stage at a talent search in elementary school, and that’s when I decided to become a music artist.

A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently

Dedication and hard work trump talent when talent doesn’t work hard

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

It was so nice to see that the Chelsea supporters appreciated my talent and my work at Atletico.

Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity

People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard

My parents – Augustine Joseph and Elizabeth – discovered my talent for singing when I was a kid. I remember them telling me that I sang a classical piece after listening to it a couple of times when I was two-and-a-half years old.

Earlier in the shorter format, I was not consistent, so I was not getting noticed. But I always believed that I had the game to do it. It was just about consistency.

Success is not just about talent, it’s also about hard work, dedication and focus.

There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

He firmly believed that football, like other sports, used blacks, exploited them and then spit them out once their talents as running backs or linebackers or wide receivers had been fully exhausted. For a few lucky ones, that moment might not come until they were established in the pros. For others, it might come at the end of college. For most, it would all end in high school.

I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I’ve done.

I think if you’re artistic in any way, you’re probably born with it. I guess it’s a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.

A city full of immigrants, without a soul still behind its glass buildings and concrete highways, where success is measured in millions of bolivars, Caracas does not have time to recognize talents that are not consecrated in advance – Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza.

Children’s lies are signs of great talent.

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

I think if you have ability and talent in one way, you have it in all ways. I’m not a jack of all trades; I’m a master of many. I don’t feel there is anything I can’t do if I want to.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

Be yourself and really embrace your inner beauty and your true talent.

Even if you have the talent, you still have to push yourself.

My middle name really is perseverance. I’ve always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn’t worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that’s what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them. But I felt I had talent.

An average person with average talent, ambition, and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society if that person has clear, focused goals.

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don’t ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible

I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely.

Talent is important but it is not the key point.

When Ronaldo gave that little wink everyone interpreted it that he had got his team-mate sent off. You felt then that he would become a much criticised figure. But that’s not really what happened. So for him to overcome all of that and emerge as one of the players of the season is quite a remarkable achievement. He is a phenomenal talent. He has tremendous pace, he goes past players and he has added the ability to shoot. He can also pick out team-mates. There is not a lot he cannot do now. I believe his game has improved immeasurably over the past couple of seasons.

I don’t believe in talent. Talent doesn’t exist.

Don’t waste talent. No matter what you do, don’t waste talent.

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

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

I like finding talent. That’s what really turns me on, I suppose.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal foot-holdings with talent.

This industry is 90% business, 10% talent.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams – each according to his or her own talent.

Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don’t be afraid to be the best.

I always knew I had a voice and I’ve always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it’s the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it’s what I’m most talented at and what I love to do the most.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

To course across more kindly waters now my talent’s little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in the twilight, which, like fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. Whatever is hidden from full view in this feeble light has to be guessed at by talent, or simply left to chance. So once again for the lack of objective knowledge, one has to trust to talent or to luck.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

I don’t want my personality to overshadow my talent

I’m lucky because I was born with a talent, but I also worked hard to develop it.

My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see

Ordinary people merely think how they shall ‘spend’ their time; a man of talent tries to ‘use’ it.

I had a unique privilege to have a good start in life and a chance to develop my talents.

I hit the league straight out the streets with no talent scout.

At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.

You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!

You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That’s a good start… for feeling good.

I love showcasing my talents – not only to my hometown fans and my own team but to the world.

I’m going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.

Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.

The most decided men of character are often those whose inferiority in talent prevents them from being self-confident

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail

You can’t take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.

Perhaps Jesus is asking of you a little task, and, if you find it, later He will ask of you something that is greater. Always keep your eyes open for the little task, because it is the little task which is important to Jesus Christ. The future of the Kingdom of God does not depend on the enthusiasm of this or that powerful person; those great ones are necessary too, but it is equally necessary to have a great number of little people who will do a little thing in the service of Christ.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

My talent is my talent. I ain’t really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

I’m always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain’t really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

Knowledge cannot be taken away from anyone except by obsolescence

Anyone who has taken up the responsibility to lead a team can be successful only if he is sufficiently independent, powerful and influential in his own right to become a person to reckon with.

Depression doesn’t take away your talents—it just makes them harder to find. But I always find it. I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that’s left.

I’ve been through struggles, but I turned them into success

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else’s talent. I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

Money can run out but talent is forever.

Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don’t believe there is only one greatest player either.

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

The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I’m out there, no one can bother me.

So the next time we battle with our kids over those vegetables, or they refuse to join us for a walk to the park, the next time we struggle to change our schools or communities, we need to remind ourselves that parents everywhere are going through exactly the same thing. We have to remember that we’re all in this together.

Success is only meaningful–and enjoyable–if it feels like your own.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

When they go low, we go high.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

The greatest successes come from having the freedom to fail

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

I know my boundaries. I know the limits to the car.

My homeland is a poem that will never be silenced.

The heart’s geography is as vast as the sky.

Our roots are deep, and our branches reach for the sky.

Every day I’m getting shaped and molded. Keepin’ on, being a better artist, and improving on this, improving on that. The more I’m in it, the more I’m practicing and the more I’m advancing.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

It doesn’t matter if I am better than Cristiano Ronaldo, all that matters is that Barcelona are better than Madrid.

As long as I have the power to dream, I will dream of returning.

I grow as a player yearly and do not get stuck in a rut. I improve my game in every way possible.

my desire to always get better, always want more, always be my top critic, and accept the good and the bad is a trait that accounts for my success.

I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don’t think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only harms you to worry about those things.

There is no ‘I’ in team, but there is in win.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.

I can’t speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

In football, as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precious.