Kenny Omega Quotes

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

Talent is what you make of your situation.

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

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

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

Don't get me wrong: I've had a lot of fortune, to come where I've come from, to be able to move to Europe, to go racing. But I had that fortune behind me. I grabbed it with both hands, and I made the best of it.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be.' Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

There is no magical reason why I am where I am. And there is absolutely no reason why you can't be where you want to be. If it can happen for me, it can happen for you, too. And it would be a privilege for me to help you get there.