inherent gift Quotes

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.

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

My genius is in my nostrils.

Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

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.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

Every human being was born with an inherent gift, and that gift is their gift to humanity; they are supposed to serve humanity in the area of their gifting.