Passion is like genius: a miracle.
You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.
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.
You are either born a writer or you are not.
One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.
Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.
You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.
Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.
Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.
Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life.
I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.
What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.
I think sometimes you are born with a song.
I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.
I have a gift. I just know what I'm doing.
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.
You can't really just make someone into something and it works all the time; that person has to be a natural.
I've been swinging the same way since I was born. It's always worked.
There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.
Actors are not made, they are born.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
You've either got it or you haven't.
I was probably born with some designing abilities.
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.
