Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.
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