Degrees Quote by Ken Danby

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its…

— Eric Hoffer

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

— Neil Simon

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

— Jessye Norman

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame.…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.

— Bruce Lee

Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel…

— Robert Fulghum

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

— Bobby Unser

Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to…

— Natalie Massenet

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

— Denzel Washington

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you…

— Eric Idle

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental,…

— Malcolm Gladwell