Innate Talent Quotes

I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

I wasn't born a superstar.

I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were born into. And so I wanted to be a veterinarian or an architect. I wanted to be in a band, and for some reason I could understand how you could be in a band because I had guitars and all my friends played music. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.

Perfect pitch is genetic. It's 100% genetic.

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.

I think some people are born to Entertain. They just have those personalities and they are great at it. Their forte isn't singing so they use auto tune, etc... But they have a lot of talent in entertaining.

Some people have just got a capacity for creativity that's unbelievable!

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.

I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

I think that God has blessed each of us with innate gifts, and if I've demonstrated any ability to not stick my foot in my mouth on air or in the written word, then I will take that and stand for liberty on the right side of God.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

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

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I knew how to succeed was to try harder than anyone else. Dogged persistence is what got me through life. But here was something I was half-decent at. Being able to run great distances was the one thing I could offer the world. Others might be faster, but I could go longer. My strongest quality is that I never give up.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

True understanding is the spur of genius

Acting is one of those things that anybody can do because no one can learn it, but only a few people can really do because it's nothing you can learn.

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

It's not my fault so much as my genius.

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.