Sentence examples for hard work and intelligence from inspiring English sources

He believes his success is the result of his own hard work and intelligence.

University fits into a traditional route to success through hard work and intelligence but there are other paths.

She expected a meritocracy, where hard work and intelligence rule the day, and found that whom you know and how you present yourself can best the best.

Edison's career, the fulfillment of the American dream of rags-to-riches through hard work and intelligence, made him a folk hero to his countrymen.

He praises his volunteers effusively for running a campaign "based on merit, hard work and intelligence", and says, "It is now time to heal our city".

The busy attacker may not have the skill or flair of former and current team-mates like Cristiano Ronaldo or Wayne Rooney, but his all-around play, hard work and intelligence have long been appreciated by those with whom he shares a field.

The pristine beauty of her lyric soprano and the charm of her person, combined with hard work and innate intelligence, lent her performances a compelling authority, even though some, not unjustly, considered that artifice sometimes replaced art in her interpretations of both opera and lieder.

To get that big so fast, Murphy says he needed more than hard work and raw intelligence.

"By dint of hard work and native intelligence, Henderson, although not a college graduate, rose steadily through the ranks," the judge in her case later wrote.

He is not likely to lose the hard work and acquired knowledge and intelligence and something of a glint behind the hard shell.

The key factors, Helmreich concluded, were "hard work and determination, skill and intelligence, luck, and a willingness to take risks".