Natural Aptitude Quotes

When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

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

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

It's in my blood to be an athlete, to be a hockey player.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

Talent cannot be learned, it can only be developed.

Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

I was not a good singer. You know those children who are like, 'I'm gonna be a pop star,' and they sound amazing from the day they were born? I was not like that.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

Fencing and shooting kind of came naturally. From the start, I knew that I had it in me.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know 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.

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.