Natural Talent Quotes - Page 2

• I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Heart, Pursued, Talent

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• Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Discipline, Desire

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.4704, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone has some natural talent or aptitude in one or more areas. If you can identify those areas you not only will be happier and perform more successfully in that role, but you will also become better paid for that. Our free-market system pays for performance at some point. When you have a natural talent or aptitude, coupled with desire and experience, the result is productivity plus.

  Dave Ramsey

  Desire, Pay, Aptitude

  Dave Ramsey (2002). “Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families”, p.49, Penguin

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• When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Father, Teaching

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• The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

  Jamie Bamber

  Believe, Practice, Ability

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• Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Passion, Thinking, Giving

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• 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, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.

  Hippocrates

  Perseverance, Art, Reflection

  Hippocrates (1941). “Selected works”

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• I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Humility, Successful

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• The true American dream not only provides the freedom to use your gifts and talents to achieve your highest goal but also gives you the freedom to fulfill your purpose in life. You are meant to work in ways that suit you, drawing on your natural talents and gifts. This work, when you find it and commit to it - even if only as a hobby - is the key to happiness.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Happiness, Dream, Keys

  Dennis Kimbro (2011). “What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement”, p.182, Main Street Books

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• Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club.

  Henry Beard

  Blessed, Golf, Player

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• It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

  Hannah More

  Religious, Use, Christianity

  William Roberts, Hannah More (1835). “Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More”, p.468

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• Hillary Clinton doesn't have any natural talents. Hillary doesn't have any natural connection to people. Hillary doesn't have any charisma, magnetism. All of that has to be manufactured by the media.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, People, Connections

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Natural talent means to have the ability to transform, to evolve, to play and role-play with the photographer and the stylist. And really be an actress rather than just a mannequin. So that involves a tremendous amount of confidence and your ability to expose yourself to anything that will make a better photograph.

  Michael Flutie

  Mean, Play, Roles

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right "seats"), and then leveraging them.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Individual Strength, Skills, Responsible

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Lack of discipline. First of all, I think some of them fail because they just don't have natural talent, and they shouldn't even be in the business to begin with.

  Michael Flutie

  Thinking, Discipline, Firsts

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.

  Renee Fleming

  Voice, Facts, Turns

  Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.15, Penguin

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• No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Done, Study

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.32, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• A great cook is made from having a great sense of hospitality and trying to make people happy. Then there's natural talent. Perhaps you have a feel for ingredients, the pots, the pans and stoves, that type of thing.

  Paul Rankin

  People, Trying, Ingredients

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Superficial knowledge ... is hurtful to those who possess true genius; for it necessarily draws them away from their main object, wastes their industry over details and subjects foreign to their needs and natural talent, and lastly does not serve, as they flatter themselves, to prove the breadth of their mind. In all ages there have been men of very moderate intelligence who knew much, and so on the contrary, men of the highest intelligence who knew very little. Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Ignorance, Men, Superficial Knowledge

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• (Pete) Rose's coming clean is the most soiled conversion of convenience since ... well, Aug. 17, 1998, when DNA evidence caused Bill Clinton to undergo a memory clarification. On the diamond, no one ever wrung more success from less natural talent than Rose did. But his second autobiography - which refutes the first - makes worse the mess he has made.

  George Will

  Memories, Dna, Rose

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• Spectators around the world enjoyed watching Seve, but talking to a lot of the players, he made such an impression on them the way he played, and the way he was such a beautiful, natural talent. His hands on the club. His address position. He had an unbelievable way of telegraphing through his countenance what he was going to do with the ball. It was just like an artist.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Beautiful, Artist, Player

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• As your body deteriorates, your natural talents start to go a little bit. You have to bring in physical working out, building, taking protein and doing extra stuff.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Work Out, Littles, Stuff

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• Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.

  James Ellis

  Office, Seeking, Talent

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• He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent

  John McEnroe

  Play, Tennis, Guy

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• 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.

  Richelle Mead

  Dragons, Too Much, Wealth

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.117, Penguin

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