Bob Greene Quotes

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.

Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort."~Steve Harvey

You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

When you're talented, you're talented.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

I believe we're all endowed with a very small set of narrow skills that make us unique. You've got to find what that is. Most often what you truly understand makes you unique is something that you're also going to build passion around.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

We're all born with different talents. I'm really not that smart, but I can see things - financially and development-wise. It's just the way we're made.

Nobody can take away your talent.

I was not a good singer. You know those children who are like, 'I'm gonna be a pop star,' and they sound amazing from the day they were born? I was not like that.

I believe that you should do what you know how to do best.

I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.

I just was fortunate enough to be talented at what I was watching my brother do. It's great that it worked out that way; I might have been wasting a lot of time saying that's what I want to be, but when I got behind the wheel I had the ability.

When someone has great qualities, sometimes they don't have to put much effort into things.

The funny thing about acting is, there's no 'right' way to make it. Some people need to work their butts off, and some don't. They're just naturals. I wasn't a natural. I sucked.

Always play to your strengths, whether your strengths are gender-based or just natural aptitude.

At the end of the day, I know what my bread and butter is and how I can be effective.

I always had this talent - it is something you get when you are born, so I have just worked, and it has gone well for me.

The game comes natural for me.