Meghan Daum Quotes

Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.

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

You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.

It's in my blood to perform.

When someone has great qualities, sometimes they don't have to put much effort into things.

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

I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much.

We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.

(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success

Talent cannot be learned, it can only be developed.

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.

Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

Don't say I'm not talented. If you haven't noticed, I wasn't made. I was found.

Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.

Talent is a gift from God. That is something that you are born with. To be able to be born with singing talent is just a gift. You can learn how to sing better, but you cannot learn to sing with certain quality. It is just something you are born with.

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

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 am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

You have to have a talent for having talent.