Michael East Quotes

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

Talent is one of the few things that can't be created. It can be enhanced - it can be coached and brought out of people - but you can't deny it.

It's so God-given - my talent - because it took so very little time to get it down to where I was able to perform.

Ultimately, it's down to the individual. Some people are born to perform. Some people need to work hard to control themselves.

Talent cannot be learned, it can only be developed.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

There are certain things you can't coach, you've got to watch a guy do it.

When one goes to school, you don't have any idea of what you're going to learn. But as each day passes, you learn things. I believe sport is the same way. Some guys are born with a talent. But you have to nurture that talent and continue to learn.

Talent is important, but how one develops and nurtures it is even more so.

I think writers are born, not made.

I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.

Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself.

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.

While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.

When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists

When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.

If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice at all, he might truly have been said to have done so instinctively.

First of all 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.

I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also know that if Heaven had given him good ones, he must also be able to develop them properly.

I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player