Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.
Ruth Bader GinsburgA mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert FrostSincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Charles SpurgeonEvery man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
Henry AdamsI can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
Amy WinehouseGenius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George EliotDoes 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 MandelaI just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.
Abby Lee MillerThere’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.
J. ColeThe less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce LeeWe like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Stephen KingThe more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Amelia EarhartFor every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Jim RohnThe person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTruth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiMy name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.
Adam SandlerIf you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.
Taylor SwiftI knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Marilyn MonroePennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret ThatcherI believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya AngelouWhy, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
Kanye WestNo evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George EliotAs far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.
Alice WalkerThere is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.
Edmund HillaryA man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHappiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann HesseBefore ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.
Dwayne JohnsonIt is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H. L. MenckenI have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn MonroeHis talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest HemingwayHow many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Elbert HubbardI have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert EinsteinAs president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.
Michelle ObamaI am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.
Virat KohliTalent without working hard is nothing.
Cristiano RonaldoI consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
Lady GagaBlack or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.
Denzel WashingtonBasically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.
DJ KhaledFollow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Carl JungWhen you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.
Jurgen KloppActing helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.
Angelina JolieNobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund BurkeFires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James BaldwinI probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.
Lando NorrisWhen I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.
Erma BombeckI never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham LincolnWe’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.
Stephen CurryThere is no such thing as Something for nothing.
Napoleon HillCelebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily DickinsonMany are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
Leonardo da VinciYou are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
Maya AngelouIn order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador DaliThe average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew CarnegieAbove everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.
Dolly PartonSome artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.
Billie EilishAbility is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon BonaparteMy experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.
Kevin HartMy share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen KellerModesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
Maya Angelou