My earthly parents don't know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren't taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.
Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
You just are born the way that you're born.
Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.
Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.
You're born with certain gifts and you use them as best you can in life. You begin to learn and recognize that you have certain skills and aptitudes that you apply and use them to carry you forward.
The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
People need to be true to themselves, and if entertaining and content-creating is something that does not come naturally and is really difficult, they should find something they are passionate about and love and do that instead.
We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there.
Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.
I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
I believe we're all endowed with a very small set of narrow skills that make us unique. You've got to find what that is. Most often what you truly understand makes you unique is something that you're also going to build passion around.
My career proves that you can be on top for a long period of time by doing things that come naturally.
Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.
All of us are born with certain gifts, and the secret to success is figuring out what your gift is and using it in a way that benefits others.
Always play to your strengths, whether your strengths are gender-based or just natural aptitude.
Research shows that the happiest people are those who use their natural talents to the utmost.
We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.
Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.
