I follow basketball. That was always one of my passions and enjoyed watching it. I appreciate how athletically gifted those guys are. Just never got into hockey.
I dare say that if most comedians today, the gifted ones, were to sit down and write, they’d learn more about their craft. But what happens is they get out there before they learn what their viewpoint is, if any.
Westerners often laud their children as ‘talented’ or ‘gifted’, while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It’s just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
Towards the tail end of primary school, I was pulled aside by my headteacher and told I was joining a scheme for ‘gifted and talented’ children, that would run from my 10th birthday until I was 16.
My first car, I believe it was a 1986 blue Ford Crown Vic, gifted to me by Bud and Millie Parker out of Hemlock, Michigan.
I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming ‘War Horse’ on Dartmoor.
It’s rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That’s one way of making music.
Being gifted needs courage.
No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there’s no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.
I’ve never been the guy to go for the celebrity girl. I’ve always liked regular girls, regular people, because I’ve always viewed myself as a regular person who just happens to be gifted in music.
Francis Lawrence is an astonishing filmmaker, an incredibly gifted visual filmmaker. I have great respect for his work.
I think that Jews – because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives – are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.
Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that I’ve met. He’s really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.
It’s weird to get gifted things as an actress because it usually happens when you’ve made a movie, and you can finally afford something, and then these fashion labels give it to you for free.
Kids are always told that they can be anything that they want. But what if you want to be a ballerina, and you’re terrible at ballet? Or what if you’re gifted at ballet, but you don’t like doing it?
The reason the gifted students of the world like Khan Academy is because we don’t say, ‘Memorize this formula,’ but say, ‘Let’s try to derive it from core principles,’ or, ‘I forgot my trig identity, so I’m going to just try to prove this to you.’
Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven’t studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted – he’s learned technique by working with people early on.
I might not have been academically gifted – I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle – but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.
Nobody has ever gifted me anything.
Talking, being a better talker, wouldn’t have been that hard. It was just, I was just naturally gifted at other things.
The person most qualified to tell the tale of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the man himself, as gifted an intellect as he is an athlete.
Rove, of course, is an exceptionally good, exceptionally skillful campaign guy, and Bush himself is really gifted at the political end of politics. But he’s always been, as he says, misunderestimated.
There are a million ‘oughts’ in the world. There’s a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I’m gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness.
All politicians, no matter how gifted, ultimately depend on circumstances for their success.
I’m not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people’s experiences.
This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.
To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
I was runner that really started focusing on swimming at a very young age, and that’s kind of how I got into acting. I was at a school for gifted athletes and gifted artists, and I got injured one year and started hanging out with all the actors and dancers and all those crazy people and started getting the bug.
I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.
Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.
I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints so perfectly a world and the characters within it. There are writers like that who are my influences: vivid and gifted storytellers.
I wasn’t ‘gifted’ in the way that Brock Lesnar or Roman Reigns or somebody like that is gifted, in that they got the physical attributes and so forth.
Every time I looked in the mirror, it was like, ‘You’re not good enough.’ ‘There’s always someone more popular.’ ‘There’s always someone more gifted in music.’
As long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
There’s this old saying that, if you aren’t particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don’t want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don’t know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I’ve never regretted it.
I will say that my father loved to teach and was a very gifted teacher. He probably would have been an excellent coach and trainer.
I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.
You can recognize that you’ve been gifted in certain ways and be very thankful for that, but it doesn’t mean that you brag about it.
I’ve come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
I didn’t have a financial need, and I wasn’t very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
I’m not very gifted for hairdos. I don’t like gel and all those products.
Look, coaching is what I love, it’s a passion of mine, a calling. I’m gifted to do it. The reason why is that I love helping young people reach their potential and become the best version of themselves, on and off the field.
There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They’re blessed, and they’ve worked at their craft, but there’s very few.
I think anything you do on your own, so to speak, I think, is worth more than something that is maybe looked upon as gifted to you or handed to you.
Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It’s like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn’t have that.
Focusing on the gifted always leaves people behind, and portrays working-class people as a repellent hinterland that ‘gifted’ and ‘talented’ children need rescuing from.
So many actors who are really gifted and talented just don’t get the opportunity. I happened to get that opportunity.
My favourite player was Jack Grealish; top man! He is a naturally gifted footballer and for me, he is a joy to watch. If I could watch any player play, it would be him. He can do everything – he is exciting and tries to make things happen.
There are actually very few deeply ‘gifted’ kids with transcendent cognitive or artistic abilities.
The list of gifted teachers and librarians who find their jobs in jeopardy for defending their students’ right to read, to imagine, to question, grows every year.
Acting is too often looked upon as a ‘gifted art.’ This may be, but having the gift is only the beginning. It must be honed, developed by training and experience.
The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
I like Spike Lee a lot. He’s incredibly gifted and I don’t think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
You’ll be able to find many unemployed actors, you know? I’ve been gifted a wonderful career, and to now be able to find myself in a place where someone can look at the course I’ve charted and say, ‘I can do that,’ or ‘I can do even better!’ is a privileged position to be in.
