Gifted Talent Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

Patricia Clarkson

#3. Like all high-Lammers, I am a lucky accident of birth, gifted with a talent that can be expanded by something as simple as a mineral. A mineral unfortunately rare and extremely addictive. This - this dust - rules our lives. Sometimes I wonder if it would be better had there been no magic at all.

Cat Hellisen

#4. Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.

Sarah Weeks

#5. You shouldn't be proud of being good at something, if you were born with it. That would be as dumb as being proud of having two legs, or speaking a language, or pooping.

Orson Scott Card

#6. Don't you ever get in trouble for things like that at the school for the Incredibly gifted?" Jane asked. "No," Merissa said sadly. "Our talent is mischief, so whenever we do something bad they just encourage us to try harder.

Lizzie K. Foley

#7. Shadowing is really a great way to learn how the entire TV-making mechanism works. I had the distinct pleasure of shadowing the gifted and talented Allison Anders, who taught me a great deal about the importance of collaboration and trusting the talent around you.

Ian Anthony Dale

#8. I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.

Wayne Gretzky

#9. As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.

Clive James

#10. Whatever ought to be, can be.

James Rouse

#11. You've got one life; do all you can to fulfill your passion. Everybody is gifted with a special talent.

Vinita Kinra

#12. David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.

Alex Ferguson

#13. and someday, fat innkeepers will bow to me.

Margaret Weis

#14. We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.

Susan Mitchell

#15. But I was held down to earth by being constantly reminded that the world expects much of the gifted and that having talent is never an excuse for not using it.

Tove Jansson

#16. Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or win/loss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.

Alan Cohen

#17. I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young ... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

Gustav Mahler

#18. When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe ... you shouldn't let that person go just because you're afraid.

Megan Hart

#19. In my experience there are few people who are of true genius. There are many who are gifted, but most of the world's work and great things come from ordinary people with a talent which they develop.

James E. Faust

#20. Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what eludes most people.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#21. There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.

Zac Efron

#22. When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#23. This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent ...

Ruggiero Ricci

#24. I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.

Andie MacDowell

#25. The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.

Bruce Tognazzini

#26. The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

Aldo Leopold

#27. Talent is divinely gifted, and never to be cheaply exchanged for the sake of trinkets and fame.

T.F. Hodge

#28. I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

Ozzy Osbourne

#29. Image of a girl holding a blaster to a twin's temple. "Remember, bi***. You can't spell 'danger' without DNA."


Blam.

M T Anderson

#30. However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

Simone De Beauvoir

#31. I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#32. I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies ... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.

Patricia Riggen

#33. Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a very gifted composer and arranger never ceases to amaze me. I consider him one of the musical giants of our age.

Oscar Peterson

#34. The closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

Malcolm Gladwell

#35. If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'

Joan Crawford

#36. We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

John Donne