Bill Hader Quotes

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, well, neither do I. I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything- You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

Ambition beats genius 99% of the time

The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.

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

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I decided a long time ago that I didn't have to be talented. I just had to be persistent.

Musical success depends on how much you enjoy it and how much you are willing to put in. Luck must follow, too.

You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.

Easy is not a option..No days off..Never Quit..Be Fearless..Talent you have Naturally..Skill is only developed by hours and hours of Work

Don't think that you can just rely on natural talent because there are going to be times when you get a little tired and that's when your skills come into play to help you make look easy.

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

The harder I practiced, the luckier I got.

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.

Talent is long patience.

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.

I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

Without patience, there can be no genius

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

Most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them.

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.