AJ Lee Quotes

Improvement in social conditions will not compensate for a bad hereditary influence.

If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.

Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal miners. Why did they go into that line of work? Because that's what they were taught. Or was it in their genes? It's not an either/or question. It's both. I was inclined in that way. I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

Can't win without talent, you know.

You've either got it or you haven't.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully.

Organization cannot make a genius out of a dunce.

Great talents appear whenever the social conditions favorable to their development exist. This means that every man of talent who actually appears, every man of talent who becomes a social force, is the product of social relations.

From deformed parents, deformed offspring come to be.

I acknowledge freely the great power of education and social influences in developing the active powers of the mind, just as I acknowledge the effect of use in developing the muscles of the blacksmith’s arm, and no further. Let the blacksmith labour as he will, he will find that there are certain feats beyond his power that are well within the strength of a man of herculean make, even although the latter may have led a sedentary life..

There is no escaping from the conclusion that nature prevails enormously over nurture.

I should thank my parents for my beauty. It's in my genes.

I've always been of the opinion that great talent can't be held down.

Some people are born fast.

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