Timothy Zahn Quotes

It takes skill to benefit from luck.

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

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

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.

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

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

Talent doesn't always equal success.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

Everyone has opportunities and different doors that are opened to them in different ways. In the end, if you're talented you'll get work, if you're not, you won't, so it doesn't really matter who you know.

You don't just need skills and talent, you also need luck.

If you have talent, then success will come to you.

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

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

People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good fortune, or whatever, but when your moment arrives, you have to have been at a point where you paid your dues, or done your 10,000 hours or have the requisite talent or whatever.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last.

You see people who get so many big opportunities, and they take them, and they're not ready.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it.

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.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.