Inborn Trait Quotes

One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.

I think you're either born with a sense of style, or you're not.

Listen, you can't just come in to boxing and be a world champion. You've got to be born with it.

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

Neither instinct nor style ..can be bought or taught.

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

You can't wake up one morning and say, 'Right, now I'm going to be a leader.' I think it is something that's in you, that you're born with, and which develops. Some people have that character, that personality and it comes naturally. You can't force it. It has to be authentic and natural. Innate.

A person is born with a liking for profit.

I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

Actors are not made, they are born.

I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not.

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --

The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.

I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.