Acquired Skill Quotes

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Talent cannot be learned, it can only be developed.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

All things require skill but an appetite.

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

Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat else.

I think we've debunked the myth of talent. It doesn't appear that there's anything like a music gene or center in the brain that Stevie Wonder has that nobody else has.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

If I have the choice between experience and talent, I'm taking talent every time.

I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away.

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

Nobody is born a dancer.

Familiarity breeds attempt.

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.

In reality, speaking in tongues is an acquired skill. At the time, I thought I was undergoing a spiritual experience. You feel good when you do it.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

A skill is something that you aren't inherently talented at and that isn't an effortless action, the way your thinking talents might be, but is something you can become excellent at nonetheless.