The Naturals Quotes

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

Peter F. Drucker

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. It's best not to depend on the gray haired. We're too close to God to rely on,

Nadia Hashimi

#6. 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

#7. In every respect the burthen is hard on those who attack an almost universal opinion.

John Stuart Mill

#8. Mangonels and trebuchets and rolling rams mounted

George R R Martin

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

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#12. 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

#13. I shivered from the warmth of it.

Chris Orcutt

#14. Home is the people who love you.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#15. Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.

Donna Leon

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#19. Nothing hurts you unless you let it.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#20. 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

#21. If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#24. 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

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

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#27. I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis