Mikhail Kalashnikov Quotes

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

You are either born a writer or you are not.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

Actors are not made, they are born.

There's an old chestnut that asks whether an entrepreneur is born or made and I think it's a combination of both. You need the talent; without the talent you can't do it.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.

Neither instinct nor style ..can be bought or taught.

The speed you have, you can't practice it. You have to be fast from your birth on. There are other things you can practice, like flexibility or the little steps needed to stand good to the ball, but to be fast is a gift you get.

I never studied business. It's either in your DNA, or it isn't.

I always had this talent - it is something you get when you are born, so I have just worked, and it has gone well for me.

Writing is something that comes naturally to me, like acting.

The game comes natural for me.

...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.

A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

I think that there has been a slow recognition that there's a mind at work here, and there's a skill and some bit of artistry, and that I could probably do other things. Otherwise, I don't know that I would've been given the opportunity to do Paris, Je T'Aime.

My mother says healers are born, not made.