Inherent Aptitude Quotes

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.

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.

Passion is like genius: a miracle.

I was born with the gift.

What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.

I've always had an aptitude for wrestling. I can't explain it - it's like a gift. To this day, I don't always know how or why I do certain things.

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.

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.

Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

Some of us were born to hate and some of us were born to be great.

Good people are not trained, they are found. If you are training too much, you may not have the right people.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

Everyone is born with some special talent.

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.

You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever... but with me it just happens.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

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.

We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato.