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• When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

  Brady Anderson

  Sports, Running, Natural

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• My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.

  Erykah Badu

  Mother, Art, Couple

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• Being a sport star and a chef both require passion, commitment, work and natural ability.

  Paul Rankin

  Sports, Stars, Passion

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Use Of Time

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.95, Moody Publishers

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• You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.

  Mike Trout

  Thinking, Bats, Balls

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• Everybody has talent and it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night - and also something that you have a talent, not a talent for, but skills that you have a natural ability to do very well. And usually those two things go together.

  George Lucas

  Moving, Night, Skills

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• (In your callings) you have access to more than your natural capacities, and you do not work alone. The Lord will magnify what you say and what you do in the eyes of the people you serve. He will send the Holy Ghost to manifest to them that what you spoke was true. What you say and do will carry hope and give direction to people far beyond your natural abilities and your own understanding.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Eye, People, Giving

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• My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive.

  Arthur Tress

  Meaningful, Organization, Desire

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• If one... struggles for what is beyond the most proper, doing not in accordance with one's natural ability, acting not with one's genuine feeling, one will surely get into trouble.

  Guo Xiang

  Struggle, Feelings, Acting

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• I've worked with incredible producers who have also taken my voice and brought it to another level. I think I have some natural abilities, but it's the technique that I've been learning from the best that keeps me going. I'm really honored to do it.

  Margaret Cho

  Taken, Thinking, Voice

  "Sing out, sister". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, seattle.gopride.com. 2016.

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• Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Class, Play, Feelings

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• ...angels... are always being filled full of light, becoming ever more radiant and making blessed use of their natural ability to change. They dance for joy around the First Light, look continuously towards Him and are enlightened directly by Him, as they tirelessly sing the praises of the Fount of light and, being ministers of light, transmit illuminating grace to those lower beings who are being enlightened.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Blessed, Angel

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• I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

  Robert Carlyle

  Thinking, Comedy, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, "Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?"

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Thinking, Opposites

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  Christian, Men, Impossible

  Ezekiel Hopkins (1809). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Ezekiel Hopkins...now First Collected”, p.410

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• English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it

  Leon Uris

  Writing, Important, Example

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• Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for the most part hinting at things and leaving a great deal to be understood. They frequently exaggerate with the aim of extolling themselves and diminishing the status of others. They are boasters and threateners and given to bombastic self-dramatization, and yet they are quick of mind and with good natural ability for learning.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Self, Voice, Leaving

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• I think I have a natural ability to lead.

  Mark Sanchez

  Thinking, Natural, Ability

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• There were a lot of running backs as good as me. The real difference was that I could focus. I never laid back and relied on natural ability.

  Jim Brown

  Running, Real, Differences

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• Wrestling is a one-on-one experience and if something goes wrong you can't point a finger and blame somebody else. What you do is up to you. And yet it's a team sport, because whether your team wins or loses is a result of the cumulative effect of the matches. Wrestling is a great confidence builder because it's not all about strength. You have to use your balance and skill and technique and if you do, you can overcome a lot of muscle and bulk guys, and even those who have natural ability. Basically, you can out-technique an opponent.

  Dennis Hastert

  Sports, Team, Wrestling

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• Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Persistence, Practice

  Stephen R. Covey (1991). “Principle-centered leadership”, Free Press

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• Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Drinking, Golf, Bars

  Jimmy Demaret (1954). “My Partner, Ben Hogan”, New York ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill Book Company

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• Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  School, Men, Historical

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• I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

  David Duchovny

  Writing, Hard Work, Thinking

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• He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Teaching, Men, Religion Of Islam

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