Inherent Trait Quotes

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

I've always known from a young age that creativity is natural.

Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Leadership is a trait; it's not a skill.

We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a universal, incontestable fact, resulting from the nature of man, and not an adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness.

I do always want to be creating something; I can't help it. I don't know why that is, but I'm certainly not gonna knock it now, at the age of 36. It seems to be working.

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.

I was born gay, OK? I've always known. I don't think my family were the least bit surprised.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which he is fitted.

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

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

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

You're either good at boxing, or you're not.

Loving God is like my being black. I just am. [No one says] 'You know what? I'm gonna be blacker today!' It's my culture. It's not something I put on or take off or show more. You just communicate that in the way you live your life.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.

A thing's innate disposition does not lie.