Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
Our natural gifts and abilities are limited, but when augmented by inspiration and guidance of the Holy Ghost, our potential increases many fold.
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development.
I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.
Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.
Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.
The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.
If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?
Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.
Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.
Jay-Z is more naturally gifted. He didn't depend as much as 50 did on his personal story. Jay-Z has a great story, he came from a pretty rough background. But 50's early success was so much fueled on the story and where he came from. With Jay-Z, I feel he has a more natural gift for language and for music itself. 50 really had to study and work at it much harder.