Peter Kropotkin Quotes

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

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

I think you're born with style, but you have to develop it. You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.

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

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I like talent. I respect talent. I teach talent.

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.

I was talented at a young age, but I still had to grow and develop further.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

I believe a 'talented' person is one who has learned how to effectively cultivate and polish any of the many desirable capabilities with which most of us are born but few of us nurture.

If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.

It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it.

Can't win without talent, you know.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I'm not against gifts that entertain, but I really believe that some of the most valuable gifts that we can give are the things that help us to develop a skill and be entertaining.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.

Working on new projects gives you the opportunity to learn and absorb new things.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Some people can be president, some people can speak, some people, you know, anything that's positive, man - a dentist, a doctor. Just hang in there and never give up, and find out what is your talent. First you got to find your talent and just stick with your talent, and I guarantee you'll get there, man.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.