Innate Quotes

293 Innate quotes by 236 unique authors

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us… — Alanis Morissette
Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this — Ram Dass
Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to… — Edith Wharton
‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
He had the innate sense that something bad was just around the bend, but a hope that something incredible was waiting in the distance. It… — Lauren Kate
The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak… — Steve Martin
I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I… — Dean Karnazes
Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a… — William S. Burroughs
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage… — Thomas Mann
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly… — David Foster Wallace
Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice. — Gretchen Rubin
Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the… — Malcolm Gladwell
She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candlelight. She had assumed his kindness was so natural and… — Cassandra Clare
Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of… — Irvin D. Yalom
Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his… — Pope Benedict XVI
Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare. — Erin Morgenstern
Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we… — Hope Mirrlees
There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you… — Jacqueline Carey
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of… — Hermann Hesse
Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of… — Steven Erikson
She didn't smile back. Not even a little. I totally needed to read that book on how to win friends and influence people. But that… — Darynda Jones
Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire… — Albert Ellis
What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was… — Elizabeth Gaskell
What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this — Kevin Heath
Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and… — Christopher Hitchens

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