Cher Quotes

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

Anyone with talent can play in the Major Leagues; for someone like me to stay around as long as I did, I think that's a much greater acheivement.

I'd rather be lucky than good.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

When I look for people to work with, I'm just looking for talented people.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.

You don't try any less hard on the ones that don't. I've gotten lucky to work with some amazingly talented people that have helped the ones that have worked work. I think you just have to keep doing the stories you love and the characters that you love and are drawn to.

Hard work is for people short on talent.

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that.

It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.

I never take credit for anything, because it's mostly genetic to my way of thinking. Even the need to work hard with some genetic talent you're given - the need to go out and develop it, and push hard to bring it to people.

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession. I was lucky enough to win the Pulitzer Prize for History. I had to give a talk right after that to some young people. The most important thing to tell them, I think, is that you can't ever know that it's going to turn out that way.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time. And good training, which we were lucky to have. And I think that's what people are curious about - other people, and what they're like.