Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Roethlisberger

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.

Daniel H. Pink

One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non - sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.

Bob Barker

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

Dave Ramsey

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.

Erin Morgenstern

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

James Ellis

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

Gail Sheehy

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

John C. Maxwell

The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.

Natalie Imbruglia

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

Charlie Bell

When he finished last season, he came on like gangbusters once we got to know him and once he got the feel of varsity football, ... He was showing us all summer what we've got, offensively and defensively, so there's no surprise to us. Josh is just born with talent and skill, but to his credit, he works extremely hard to maximize it.

Tom Shales

Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a member of a vanishing breed, especially as narrowcasting displaces broadcasting, 'online' replaces 'on the air,' and any Tom, Dick or Mary can be monarch of a desktop domain, uplinking themselves to satellites in space.

Titus Welliver

I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.

Joe Torre

We know he just lives for this type of situation. You have to be born with that need to compete.

Andrew Coates

Venus was born with the same sorts of constituents as Earth, which means there was some water in the environment. Some more probably came in from comets.

Diane Wakoski

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

Teresita Sy-Coson

I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.

Eiza Gonzalez

I'm born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part of my life, and I love it. Thank God my mom put me in American school because I'm able to be working in the States, and it opens a lot more doors being half and not being only one. It's cool because I get to turn it on and off.

Elliot Perlman

I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign.

Brian Setzer

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.

Amos Lee

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

Nick Cave

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

Smokey Robinson

Songwriting is my gift from God

Norah Jones

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Mike Gordon

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

Lou Reed

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

Emeli Sande

Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I'll do that for the rest of my life.