A Quote by Stephen Fry

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

Stephen Fry

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Stephen Fry
British - Comedian
Born: August 24, 1957

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

Mike Thompson

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

Paul Mooney

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

Haruki Murakami

I think I'm the same dancer everywhere. But I've learned a lot with Bolshoi - the history of the theater, the technique of the theater, different nuances in my technique.

David Hallberg

The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious... Because you have learned it so well you have forgotten it.

Robert Olen Butler

The great thing with Usain Bolt is he fell into great coaching, so his talent was exceptional from Day 1. You can coach technique and structure, but not talent.

Donovan Bailey

I try to show good technique - boxing technique, wrestling technique, jiu jitsu technique.

Andrei Arlovski

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

Shinichi Suzuki

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

Corita Kent

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Geena Davis

Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.

Michel Patini

I was a natural talent, a raw talent. Then I came to Manchester City, and I learned philosophies.

Nikita Parris

Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

Laurie Colwin

Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --

Robert A. Heinlein

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Plato

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Socrates

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