Carol S. Dweck Quotes

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.

Can't win without talent, you know.

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

If I have the choice between experience and talent, I'm taking talent every time.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn't the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it.

If you have two hands or 30 hands, show me what you can do, and we'll go from there.

There are plenty of players who have a lot of talent. It's all about getting the best out of yourself and you'll have to work very hard to achieve that.

Everyone has talent in the league.

I've come across enough successful people now to know that the best in whatever walk of life, they're the ones who just work the hardest. I realized that if I want to be the best and fulfill my potential, I'm going to have to do the same thing. And for those who are lucky enough to be born with a gift and then choose to work the hardest-I mean, that's the combination.

If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.

Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

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

What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude.

I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.

Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.

Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.