Montesquieu Quotes

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

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

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

I think of talent as being God-given. I know that contradicts what a lot of people believe, but that's how I see it. I think the Beatles were meant to be, you know? So when I listen to Paul McCartney, I think, 'Here's the person that God gave the gift of allowing him to write 'Let It Be.'

I recognize that every role I play, I'm not going to play someone that has a ministry or that is a Christian, and I don't think that's what God has called me to do. The gift and talent that He's given me as an actor, director, producer is to entertain, sometimes to inform, most times to inspire.

You're gifted to do something.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

I was born with the gift.

It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.

Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.

I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I've always done. That's really where my best stuff comes from. I don't know how it happens. It just happens.

Some people have just got a capacity for creativity that's unbelievable!

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

I realized at a very young age that I had a gift to do special things with the ball.

People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.

You can't make a star - they just have it.