Excellent Quote by Simonides of Ceos

You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness.

— Tom Rath

Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

— Lee Strasberg

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

— Daisaku Ikeda

People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that…

— Antonio Damasio

I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these.…

— Scott Lynch

“What is generally recognized as “great talent” is, in almost all cases, nothing more than the outward manifestations of an unwavering dedication to a…

— Sean Patrick

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense…

— Wendy Beckett

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

— Muhammad Ali

Some people are more talented than others. Some are more educationally privileged than others. But we all have the capacity to be great. Greatness…

— Peter Koestenbaum

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

— Madeleine L'Engle

It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.

— Henry Blodget

First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that…

— Paulo Coelho