Gifted Quotes - Page 4

• If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Leadership, Ambitious, Determined

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• I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

  Tim Robbins

  Thinking, Credit, Filmmaker

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• Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

  Gloria Swanson

  Beautiful, Tennessee, Common

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• 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.

  Alex North

  Friday, Tuesday, Records

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• I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.

  Oliver Kahn

  Team, Winning, Player

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• Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.

  Leo Ornstein

  Writing, Men, Ears

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• I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

  James Cook

  Musician, Composer, Dues

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• I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

  George Linnaeus Banks

  Men, Gold, Reason

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• Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Children, Real, Way

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• In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

  John Millington Synge

  Family, Son, Artist

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.235, Wordsworth Editions

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• Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  Gautama Buddha, “Joy”

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• Every man and woman alive is gifted by God in some special way. People who have a self-image of worth are going to see value in what they do. This is the attitude that motivates them to be and to do their best. It's a drive that comes from within people.

  William Walton

  Attitude, Men, Self

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• Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world.

  L.A. Reid

  Looks, World, Sound

  "New Michael Jackson music coming in May" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. March 31, 2014.

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• I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit of genius just waiting to be tapped. It might be a talent for art or music... a special way of relating to the ones you love. It might be a genius for selling or innovating.... I choose to believe that our Creator doesn't play favorites, that we've all been created unique, but with equal opportunities for experiencing life to the fullest.

  Tony Robbins

  Art, Believe, Sleep

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 14, 2011

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• Money can run out but talent is forever

  Lady Gaga

  Running, Forever, Talent

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Jan 12, 2014

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• When it comes to giving love, the opportunities are unlimited, and we are all gifted.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Opportunity, Giving Love, Unlimited

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• No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

  Danger Mouse

  Passion, People, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Art, Prayer, Use

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.

  William E. Rees

  Inspiring, Intelligent, Self

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• The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

  Matthew Arnold

  Poetry, Simplicity, Noble

  On Translating Homer: Last Words (1862)

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• High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

  James Wolcott

  Birthday, Children, Self Esteem

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• Goodness in other people and what they contribute inspire me. I love it when someone is gifted and shares it in some way so that it has a trickle-down effect.

  Renee Zellweger

  People, Inspire, Way

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• I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.

  Ransom Riggs

  Children, Real, Home

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• Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is not one of active instruction, of teaching children skills,... rather, it is support and encouragement parents give children and the intellectual climate that they create in the home which seem to be the critical factors.

  David Elkind

  Encouragement, Children, Teaching

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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