Sentences with phrase «luck than talent»

«There s no doubt in my mind that my success has more to do with luck than talent, more to do with stubbornness than vision, more to do with ignorance than insight, but the fact remains that I pursued my dream and attained it against staggering odds.

Not exact matches

More than talent or luck, grit is what makes the true difference in whether or not you succeed.
Giroud misses more than he hits, Walcott has NEVER delivered his expected talent, Welbeck will NEVER be the striker to score 20 goals a season Coqellin will NOT go a whole season injury or suspension free, Sanchez and Ozil WILL have down period during the season, all teams have these problems to a greater or lesser degree but most of the top teams will address these problems and players either inprove or are sold and replaced with better or at least more consistant players, NOT Wenger he keeps doing the same thing over and over with the same players and he expects a different result but gets the same outvome time and time again, yet its ALWAYS someone else's fault be it the Ref or the linesman or the opposition or bad luck or whatever and whoever and its NEVER the fact that HE has done nothing to change the situation and LOOKS LIKELY to not change it next time around.
Whilst they need a little luck, they have more than enough talent.
Director Brad Peyton — a Newfoundlander, by the way — may have some talent for creating breathless action but he has no more luck stirring emotions here than he did directing San Andreas, another recent Rock vehicle in which a lot of things collapsed.
I only find it a bit lazy that everything happened to unfold as it did and covering it all was really a matter of luck rather than talent.
With luck, Marvel might just be entering a «Pixar phase», in which it garners the confidence to promote talent from within rather than parachuting in fan - friendly film - makers who do not understand the studio's bigger picture.
Very few students win more than $ 100,000 in scholarships, and doing so requires a combination of talent and luck.
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