Quotes About Naturals

#1. None of us had normal childhoods," Sloane said quietly. "If we had, we wouldn't be Naturals.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#2. I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

Richard Briers

#3. We need far too many leaders to depend only on the naturals.

Peter F. Drucker

#4. Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Peter Drucker

#5. The striking thing about Ericsson's study is that he and his colleagues couldn't find any "naturals," musicians who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time

Malcolm Gladwell

#6. In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.

Malcolm Gladwell

#7. Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat.

John Gierach

#8. For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they have also spent about ten thousand hours practicing or doing that thing.

Meg Jay

#9. We don't yet know the state of the naturals. Are they friends or foes? None of us can say. We ought to anchor in the bay, as near as we might come to the shore, and bide our time. The naturals will show themselves, soon or late. They know we are here already, or else I'm a virgin girl.

Libbie Hawker

#10. Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. Home isn't a place. It's not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#12. Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

Catfish Hunter

#13. I read through the book of Matthew this evening. I was up all night. I couldn't stop reading so I read through Mark. This Jesus of yours is either a madman or the Son of God. Somewhere in the middle of Mark I realized He was the Son of God.

Donald Miller

#14. This is what I love about the Kimberley ... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.

Malcolm Douglas

#15. Home is the people who love you.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#16. On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

Emanuel Celler

#17. Celine snorted. "Never have I ever had a thing for blondes," she said. And then, her eyes on Sloane, she shot our statistician a dazzling smile and lowered her own finger - meaning that she did have a thing for blondes.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#18. Too young to party, just odd enough to participate in federal investigations of serial murder. Story of my life.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#19. Your statistical track record for decision-making is somewhat concerning.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#20. Luckily for us, I've never met a bad idea I did not immediately embrace like the dearest of friends.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#21. Did you know that New Hampshire has more hamsters per capita than any other state?

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#22. Nothing hurts you unless you let it.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#23. Stand tall with dignity and do the next right thing.

Nikki Duvall

#24. You know that just because you ignore something, that doesn't make it go away.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#25. Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#26. There is always more to the story.

Ryohgo Narita

#27. He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#28. Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.

Louis Gustave Vapereau

#29. Happiness is like rising bubbles
delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen
ever present.

Danielle LaPorte

#30. As an actor, I need to get excited about something that I can actually relate to.

Mike Colter

#31. Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes