W. P. Kinsella Quotes

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.

Success - it's what you do with what you've got.

I got a lot of opportunities and I was able to make the best of them.

When you drop the ball, it's not about, 'Oh, he can't catch,' or none of that. If you put time into something, of course you can catch. I wouldn't have got drafted if I couldn't.

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

Hard work will always bring opportunities

Talents used are talents multiplied.

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it.

When the sun is shining, make hay, because it would be sunset on my career at some point, and when it is, I want to be exhausted.

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.

Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

The reason everybody is so amazed and enamored with me right now is because I have worked every angle, I have worked every formula, I have worked every equation, I have seen every club, I have seen every performance, I have seen every joke, I have studied, I have done my job. That's why I'm good. It's not because I got up one night and decided I wanted to tell some f - -ing jokes.

That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

Luck is when determination meets opportunity

Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I'm gonna do that is to commit 110% - you get out what you put in.

Stay in your lane. If you're good enough, people will move to you.

Energy is something you can control, in everything you do, you're going to face people more talented than you. I set myself apart by bringing more energy than they do.