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  • All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

    Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.55
  • The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts. Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by.

    People   Giving   Effort  
  • The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

  • Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium."

  • I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

    "Trees" l. 1 (1913)
  • We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

    Crush   Sex   People  
    Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group
  • Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball, or when girls with abnormally long fingers sit down at a piano. Blending in, going unseen, being a shadow in the sun is what I'm good at. Seeing the shadows, it turns out, is not my natural gift.

    Basketball   Girl   Hate  
    Ally Carter (2011). “Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy”, p.45, Hachette UK
  • Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

  • In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be.

    Mean   Doors   Inspire  
  • Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.

    Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.190, Shambhala Publications
  • I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.

  • Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

    Music   Mean   Singers  
  • Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

    Kathleen Thompson Norris (1931). “Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women”
  • Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.

    Song: Natural Gift, Album: Think Visual
  • If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

  • I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

  • Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.

    Vision   Desire   Looks  
    John C. Maxwell (2011). “The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • 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.

    Fighting   Answers   Way  
    Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.253, Hachette UK
  • There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.

    Trust   Country   Mind  
  • Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

    Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    Children   Red   Firsts  
  • You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

    Artist   Men   Self  
    Tom Stoppard (1996). “Travesties”, p.41, Grove Press
  • Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

    Exercise   Men   Silence  
  • I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always been expressive.

    Thinking   People   Way  
    "Thomas Horn's incredibly fast start to career" by Jessica Zack, www.sfgate.com. January 15, 2012.
  • I wouldn't say Musashi is ordinary. But he is. That's what's extraordinary about him. He is not content to rely on whatever natural gifts he may have. Knowing he is ordinary, he is constantly trying to improve himself. No one appreciates the agonizing effort he's had to make. Now that his years of training have yielded such spectacular results, everybody's talking about his 'God-given talent.' That's how men who don't try very hard comfort themselves.

    Men   Talking   Years  
  • A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless love. Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is nevertheless more likely to emerge and flourish in societies that appreciate and encourage it.

  • I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

    The Daily News, June 10, 1991.
  • Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press
  • The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4
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