Quotes About Natural Ability

#1. Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

Pindar

#2. The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.

Ben Foster

#3. I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was
special in this, and for me there has been no one like her before or after. She has remained the measuring rod by which I have - unconsciously - judged
other subjects.

Eve Arnold

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Real talent harnesses what it has and unlocks what it doesn't. There is natural ability, there is the discipline that develops natural ability, there is the unending study of one's craft, and there is the exponential lifting of performance by the selfless combination of efforts.

Ken Goldstein

#8. Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#9. Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

James Dyson

#10. Jay: Looks like you misspelled the Treaty of Versailles.
Sara: Yeah, well. My brother's natural ability for languages didn't rub off on me.
Jay: ... I'm not talking about Versailles. I have no idea if you spelled that right. I'm talking about the word 'treaty.

Tracy Bilen

#11. 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

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

Stephen Covey

#13. I soon came to know that when we align our will with the Lord's, nothing is impossible. I learned that through the enabling power of the atonement of our Savior, Jesus Christ, I could do things beyond my own natural ability.

Lori E. Woodland

#14. Even if a man has no natural ability, he can be a warrior.

Miyamoto Musashi

#15. It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way.

Miyamoto Musashi

#16. I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

Mickey Mantle

#17. Overcoming all obstacles improves us, develops our natural ability and makes us stronger

Sunday Adelaja

#18. I had a home birth because I really believe in the body's natural ability to give birth. The medical profession has kind of warped women's minds into thinking we don't know how to birth and we need doctors and epidurals and Pitocin.

Sarah Shahi

#19. 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

#20. Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.

Ilchi Lee

#21. In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians, the Scriptures declare the total inability of the sinner to turn himself to God or to do that which is truly good in God's sight

Augustus Hopkins Strong

#22. 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

#23. As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.

Troy Brown

#24. All I have is natural ability.

Mickey Mantle

#25. Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#26. 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

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

Robert Carlyle

#28. The human brain has a natural ability, inherent in its mechanism, to work on many levels, in a process of constant promptings, in a type of self-preservation.
If only humans understood ...
Most ignore it.

Amanda Dubin

#29. All I had was natural ability.

Branch Rickey

#30. I think I have a natural ability to lead.

Mark Sanchez

#31. 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

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

Brady Anderson

#33. Grace is God's free empowerment that gives us the ability to go beyond our natural ability. W

John Bevere

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

Paul Rankin

#35. Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

Mickey Mantle

#36. The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

John D. Rockefeller III

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

Jimmy Demaret

#38. It's hard to learn to listen to your instincts. It's easier for some who have a natural ability to follow that little voice inside, but for others it takes practice.

Judith-Victoria Douglas

#39. 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

#40. It's not the norm, I guess, to see someone as aggressive as me being more or less very athletic. You see me running, having a big, violent hit, it's going to look bad, but that's the natural ability I've been given. Why would I let it run to the wayside and not use it?

Ndamukong Suh

#41. There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

Pat Metheny

#42. Being a winner sometimes has little to do with the score. If your players seize the opportunity to be better today than they were yesterday in softball, in math, in music, in anything worth doing in life, regardless of natural ability, that will make them winners on and off the field.

Lawrence Hsieh

#43. Natural ability can only take you so far. Continual improvement is all that matters.

Lorelei James

#44. If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard.

Kelly Ripa

#45. I guess I was phenomenally lucky that I was introduced to dancing because I'm suited to it. It would be very weird if you had this natural ability for something and you never discovered it. It must happen all the time.

Damian Woetzel

#46. People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.

Ted Williams

#47. The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

Will Durant

#48. I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

Bo Burnham

#49. We each have the innate ability to heal ourselves. To empower ourselves with natural solutions, instead of succumbing to life-altering chemicals. There's a time and place for pharmaceuticals, but it shouldn't be the first answer, nor the only form treatment.

Dana Arcuri

#50. Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.

John McCain

#51. No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some people are natural salesmen, but creating a business, driving a venture, mobilizing an army, is not something you are born to do - it just happens, by accident.

Ronnie Apteker

#52. The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#53. or perhaps because of, her natural aloofness and her ability to withdraw and view things without emotion. The fact that this extended to her own life, leaving her appearing cold and distant, was beside the point.

Rachel Abbott

#54. Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

Benjamin Hoff

#55. We have a natural creative ability and it is very important to realize this.

Dalai Lama

#56. If there really is a definable 6th sense, it would be the natural connection and the ability of communication between man and animal

Justin Southwick

#57. I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.

Anja Rubik

#58. Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

Erin Morgenstern

#59. I have the ability to make a choice in how I respond. My natural response does not have to be the only response I have.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#60. But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

Vernor Vinge

#61. Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.

Ron Wyden

#62. Unquestionably, victory or defeat in war is determined mainly by the military, political, economic and natural conditions on both sides. But not by these alone. It is also determined by each side's subjective ability in directing the war.

Mao Zedong

#63. The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.

Frantisek Kupka

#64. Most amateurs are so worried about mis-hitting the shot or hitting it off line, they don't make an aggressive move. You'd be surprised how much better your swing will get if you let your natural athletic ability shine. So go after it.

Keegan Bradley

#65. Sometimes you can't let a complete dearth of natural talent or ability stop you from doing something.

Geraldine DeRuiter

#66. Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

John Ruskin

#67. Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving) x Investment (time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base) = Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance)

Tom Rath

#68. Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

Tennessee Williams

#69. The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply ideas is precisely the sign of their incapacity for action.

Will Durant

#70. It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.

Archibald Alexander

#71. Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.

Peter Capaldi

#72. By opening blockages in the energy pathways and reawakening our innate ability to sense energy flow, we can recover our health and natural balance. When we develop sensitivity to ki, we will be able to reach our body's potential.

Ilchi Lee

#73. Read The Charisma Factor - How to Develop Your Natural Leadership Ability by Robert J. Richardson and S. Katharine Thayer. It is a superb book for any aspiring leader, or a current one, who seeks to advance to the next level. 195.

Robin S. Sharma

#74. The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.

Helen Fisher

#75. At this point, scientists have identified over 300 specific genes that play a direct role in mental retardation. That link between genes and intelligence is pretty clear. However, scientists have not found a gene for A-level math ability or a gene for having a "natural ear for languages.

Hunter Maats

#76. What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

Johann Sebastian Bach

#77. 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

#78. It's not for nothing that advanced mathematics tend to be invented in hot countries. It's because of the morphic resonance of all the camels who have that disdainful expression and famous curled lip as a natural result of an ability to do quadratic equations.

Terry Pratchett

#79. Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated creature, man. Yet man has the ability to resolve this paradox through his intellectual power and creative faculties.

Hubertus Strughold

#80. I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.

Kathleen Norris

#81. I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

Dakota Fanning

#82. Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

Charles E. Wilson

#83. Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.

Brian Boitano

#84. There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

Eric Hoffer

#85. Faith is a spiritual force ... It is substance. Faith has the ability to effect natural substance.

Kenneth Copeland

#86. Because we tend to equate intelligence with language
particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions
it is natural to conclude that animals are, on the whole, a lot less intelligent than we are.

Linda Bender

#87. So you do know!" I shouted. My phone lay there like a genie's bottle, inanimate and yet containing the ability to grant me wishes and knowledge. "Girl, spill before I come over and dye your hair a natural color.

Atom Yang

#88. The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?

Daniel H. Wilson

#89. Natural consequences is actually a parenting concept, but one I use on myself, because sometimes my ability to thoughtfully reflect on a difficult situation is in line with a four-year-old's.

Kelly Williams Brown

#90. Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints ... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.

Wayne Muller

#91. We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve.

Gerald R. Ford

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

Jamie Bamber

#93. Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Nelson Mandela

#94. World is sensation. We drift in an ocean of sensory stimuli: motion, color, texture, shape, heat, cold, natural symphonies of sound, an infinite number of scents, tastes beyond the human ability to catalogue. Nothing but sensation endures. Living things all die. Great cities do not last.

Dean Koontz

#95. Desire is the catalyst that enables a person with average ability to compete and win against others with more natural talent.

Zig Ziglar