Bryan White Quotes

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

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

As much as you may be sitting in the top five or the top 10, sometimes you just don't get that chance to get to the top.

There are such pretty faces and so many more talents and people with more potential, but they never get their chance because they are not at the right place at the right time.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

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

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.

There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.