Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

I don't think anything comes naturally; you just have to work very hard.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

Some people are just naturally good. I always found ways to become good.

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

I don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

I'm never going to be the best skater, but I feel like I'm getting better.

I just want to learn and try to be the best player I can be.

Everything that I tried to act in my life, I put in the time and effort to try and get better at it.

I got my ball-handling skills naturally. I know I can get better, and I will get better, but it's something I was born with.

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.

Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.

When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day.

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.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton ... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.