Twyla Tharp Quotes

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

See, talent is important, and so is hard work. But if you don't have destiny and good karma on your side, talent cannot do the magic by itself.

Destiny plays an important part, but talent and hard work is also important.

I don't buy into the phrase 'comedy genius.' It's like football; you can have the talent, but 90 per cent is hard work, the other ten per cent is trying to make it all look as natural as possible.

Whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.

Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

I believe in destiny, God's hand and hard work.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

The more I practice the luckier I get.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.

Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.