Diligence Quote by Irving Stone

Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. Become a creature of champion habits.

— Darren Hardy

I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way…

— Dean Karnazes

“genius is much more than high intelligence, innate talent, extraordinary work ethic, or uncanny luck, but rather a composite manifestation; a synthesis of very…

— Sean Patrick

“For almost a generation, psychologists around the world have been engaged in a spirited debate over a question that most of us would consider…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“The award goes to her because she has discovered that what we eventually accomplish may depend more on our passion and perseverance than on…

— Angela Duckworth

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

— Jordana Brewster

Somewhere out there are a few men with more innate talent at golf than Jack Nicklaus, or women with greater ability at tennis than…

— Donald Trump

“character-driven idea fascinated Barrios. It suggested that genius is much more than high intelligence, innate talent, extraordinary work ethic, or uncanny luck, but rather…

— Sean Patrick

We remain a country where a young person's chance of fulfilling their potential rests on the vagaries of where they were born and what…

— Luciana Berger

“You can take the smartest kid at Wharton, the one who gets straight A’s and has a 170 IQ, and if he doesn’t have…

— Donald J. Trump

We often say that psi is like musical ability: it is widely distributed in the populate, and everyone has some ability and can participate…

— Russell Targ