In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

— Simon Schama

So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has…

— Henry B. Eyring

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac

Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this…

— Laura Ingraham

I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or…

— Miles Davis

If you don't like club beats take a HIT OF E and you will love the music.

— Kevin McCarty

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

— Barry Bonds

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it…

— Al Stewart

Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s…

— Chaz Brenchley

Practice to beat the best.

— Dick Bennett

I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We have a…

— Landon Donovan

Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.

— Baron Bilimoria Karan Bilimoria

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the beat, the…

— Mitch Hedberg

I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my…

— Anonymous