Innate Skill Quotes

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

Talent is one of the few things that can't be created. It can be enhanced - it can be coached and brought out of people - but you can't deny it.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

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.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

I started singing when I started talking.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.

She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.

Designing comes easy and quickly to me. I don't need to spend hours to complete an X amount of work for me. I feel designing is in me.

For me, it's an easy way to make money. I'm just hitting a ball over a net. Of course, I've grown up with it. It's a part of me. It's all I really know how to do.

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went to school for music production, but I know exactly how a song should sound and how to give an artist direction.

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

My mother says healers are born, not made.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

I think tennis was just in my genes.

I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school plays or musicals, but the middle one absolutely loves it and never shows any sign of nerves or pressure and really gets a kick out of performing. I think it depends entirely on the child. And that applies to anything whether it's sport or entertainment or music or film.

Talent cannot be learned, it can only be developed.