In the contest between talent and hard work as to which is the more important element of success, there's no comparison. A mediocre talent with lots of hard work will go further than a stellar talent who coasts.
I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
When you're from an unknown place, I think it's hard for you to believe it's possible. You think you have to go to L.A. or New York to make it, but I don't think that's true. I'm glad to be an example that you can make it from where you are. All you need is talent and hard work.
Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things
You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.
My talent lies in my hard work.
I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.
(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success
The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.
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.
I don't think anyone can make it in Bollywood without talent and hard work and it applies to all fields.
To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.
Trust has always been a hard issue in my life, and when I was with the UFC, it was hard for me to trust people because it was like I was seeing lies, up to lies, up to lies.
My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard enough.
There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.