Margaret Fuller Quotes

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.

Actors are not made, they are born.

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

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

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.

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

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

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

I was born with the gift.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

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

There are certain things you can't coach, you've got to watch a guy do it.

It's so God-given - my talent - because it took so very little time to get it down to where I was able to perform.

There's some guys - Michael Jordan and Mariano Rivera and Tiger Woods - that were blessed with the ability just to be... great.