句子运用了 'but' 进行转折，对比 'attract attention' 和 'earn popularity'，突出了技能比外表更具持久价值。
Talent is an invaluable gift bestowed by God; never destroy it. (Gogol)
Is not talent itself a form of suffering? (Thomas Mann)
Genius needs sympathy and needs to be understood. (Dostoevsky)
Everyone has the right to be respected for their own abilities. (Aesop)
The most beautiful dowry is talent. (Balzac)
Performing work that is difficult for others with ease is talent; performing work beyond the capability of talented individuals is genius. (Amir)
Talent resides in comprehension and is often inherited; genius transforms reason and imagination into action, with little to no possibility of inheritance. (Coleridge)
One who possesses a wealth of talent need not fear a lack of opportunity.
Do not worry that you lack a true friend on the road ahead; who in the world does not know you? (Tang Dynasty, Gao Shi)
Good clothes may attract attention, but good skills earn popularity. (Russia)
Wealth lies within talent, not within property. (Iran)
Intellectual brilliance is the lever that moves society. (Balzac)
The difference between talent and genius is like the difference between a bricklayer and a sculptor. (Ingersoll)
Talent is the gold buried in the mine; skill is the miner who excavates it. (UK)
Genius is a special manifestation of intelligence. (Balzac)
才能是上帝赏赐的无价之宝，千万别毁了它。（果戈里）
才能它本身不就是痛苦吗？（托马斯·曼）
才华需要同情，需要有人了解。（陀思妥耶夫斯基）
每个人都有靠自己的本事而受人尊重的权利。（伊索）
最漂亮的聘礼就是才干。（巴尔扎克）
轻易地完成别人难以完成的工作是才能；完成有才能的人力所不能及的工作是天才。（阿米尔）
才能存在于悟性之中，它常常可以由遗传获得；天才把理性和想象力变成行动，很少以至根本没有遗传的可能。（柯尔律治）
人有满腹才，不怕运不来。
莫愁前路无知己，天下谁人不识君！（唐·高适）
服装好只会引人注目，本领好才会受人欢迎。（俄罗斯）
富贵寓于才能之中，而不在财产之中。（伊朗）
聪明才智是拨动社会的杠杆。（巴尔扎克）
才能和天才的差别就如同泥瓦匠和雕塑家的差别。（英格索尔）
天赋是埋藏在矿里的黄金，才能是挖掘矿藏的矿工。（英国）
天才是智力的特殊表现。（巴尔扎克）
"If you don't want to be knocked down increase your own weight"
"Success in competition depends on one's own strength."
"Strength brings influence achievement brings status"
"If you do not wish to be knocked down, you must only increase your own weight."
"If you do not want to be knocked down, you must increase your own weight."