It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.
Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it’s hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world’s most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.
Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.
We have German Shepherds, gifted by a friend, and the rest are street dogs we have adopted.
I think Lin-Manuel deserves absolutely everything that he’s getting. He is an extremely gifted guy, a very fine human being, and loves the theater. Loves it.
In the 1960s, my first-generation immigrant parents were gifted the olive branch of a blue British passport when working for the British Army in Cyprus. It completely transformed the Paphitis story.
From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my own age group. So, she moved me over to play with the boys’ travel soccer team when I was about 11 years old.
I know that I’m talented, and I know that I’m not in American Ballet Theater because I’m black – I’m here because I’m a gifted dancer.
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
I know I have a left foot that was probably gifted to me by God, or someone up there, and I can always rely on it.
As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.
I’ll tell you upfront, I think Shawn Michaels was probably the most gifted worker the business has ever seen.
I’m so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices.
I was gifted with the ball, and I saw the opportunity of playing in the Bundesliga as the tool I needed to make a name for myself.
Each of us has been gifted uniquely by God, and should use it to good capacity.
I get mad at my mom. I really wish she’d put me into hockey. I’m not gifted with height, but look at Martin St-Louis. He’s unbelievable. He’s small, but he’s so fast, so skilful. I think I could have been pretty good.
In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might otherwise have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists or inventors.
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.
I’ve always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you’re not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.
I’m not particularly gifted; I’m not genetically freakish in any sense; I’m absolutely average.
I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.
I don’t consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.
Gifted Nutrition was able to show me that they had FDA-compliant ingredients in their supplements. I thought that was really huge, especially when you are trying to show people that you are a natural athlete.
People think that jumping or do trick shot is gifted. Yes, it’s gifted but is a lot of work. I won’t say I work on the trick shot, but it’s like I think physically I’m one of the best.
Paul George is just a gifted guy that has versatility that no one else in the league has – in terms of playing ones, twos of threes, and really just blanket another team’s top perimeter scorer.
President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country.
I was introduced to theater by a teacher that found me when I was in elementary school. She tested me for the Gifted and Talented program, started taking me to see the ‘Nutcracker Ballet.’ I got involved.
I think I’m skilful enough, but I don’t consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.
I would kill to do more work with Orla Brady, I think she’s that gifted.
All the female characters in ‘The Gifted’ are stronger than the men. We’re not waiting around to be saved but spearheading the missions.
In addition to being gifted athletically and being the strongest guy in the room, Cesaro is very smart upstairs. He can go in the back and wrestle a match out in his head, then he’ll add his Cesaro-isms in the ring to really make the match special. He knows exactly where to put things and make a match explosive.
Robert Pattinson is an incredibly gifted actor. Every role that Pattinson plays is a contender for an acting award.
We have Beast, our Hungarian sheep dog. And he is so talented. He’s so smart. He knows his daily schedule. He has an extracurricular activity. He goes herding. He herds sheep. And we’ve been told that he’s quite gifted.
There’s no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.
I’ve gained a lot from James Joyce, Tolstoy, Chekhov and R. K. Narayan. While writing, I try to see if the story is going to radiate spokes. Their literature has always done that and gifted me beautiful things.
I’m not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don’t enjoy it.
I don’t care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.
Some people are just gifted with a great voice, other people are gifted with great emotion, other people are gifted with great engagement – when you find all of those things in one package, you have Taylor Swift.
When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, ‘The Art of Captaincy.’ I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don’t make you good captains.
Working in fashion we’re lucky enough to be gifted lots of items, meanwhile so many people all over the world have one t-shirt they live in, so I thought why not share? I reached out to all of my friends and asked them to donate pieces from their wardrobe that I could sell to raise money for my charity foundation.
There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don’t consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn’t go to those classes in drama school. I was like, ‘I don’t need that; I’ll never be dancing in anything.’
Some guys are always gifted: Amazing length, amazing athleticism. But just put me in front of that guy. That’s my mindset. I’m gonna battle.
I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I’ve always believed, if you’re gifted, that it’s incumbent not to think about giving something back.
I’m hard to imitate because I’m not gifted enough.
I’m an actor. That’s what I’m gifted at. It’s what makes me breathe.
People still struggle with this notion of gifted writers somehow being in touch with a higher power, but it’s all about showing up and doing the job, meeting deadlines, working hard.
I know I’m not a great writer. I’m an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I’m just a beginner.
The advent of so much dribbling has created a different kind of player, and it starts at a very early age. We have so many gifted ball handlers. Everything is pick-and-roll. Unless he’s a catch-and-shoot guy, a player is going to put it on the floor and attack. Kevin Durant is a wonderful ball handler.
