Quotes of: Natural-ability Keyword

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

James Dyson

All I had was natural ability.

Branch Rickey

As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.

Troy Brown

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

Mickey Mantle

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

Marcus Aurelius

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.

Amit Kalantri

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Red Auerbach

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

A. E. Housman

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

Kelli O'Hara

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Charles E. Wilson

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Edward Thorndike

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...

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

Robert Carlyle

Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

Thomas Woods

Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's im...

Rowan Atkinson

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

The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no

TransAtlantic

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Francis Bacon