#gifted

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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.


Adam Pascal


#call #feel #gifted #good #good actor

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.


Martin Lewis Perl


#boring #experimental #gifted #good #involve

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.


Hazel Scott


#because #easiest #easiest thing #gift #gifted

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#concerts #entertainers #entertainment #funny #gifted-people

...simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.... A moderately gifted person has to keep his or her gifts all bottled up until, in a manner of speaking, he or she gets drunk at a wedding and tap-dances on the coffee table like Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers. We have a name for him or her. We call him or her an "exhibitionist." How do we reward such an exhibitionist? We say to him or her the next morning, "Wow! Were you ever drunk last night!


Kurt Vonnegut


#giftedness #mediocrity #communication

Instead of slapping her head, I do what they tell you to do: count to ten. Only I do it the gifted way: 123+456+789+10. When your sister has hurtled you swerving into the darkness, stranded you at a funeral home, and threatens to get you in trouble, just stop and count to 1,378 before you respond.


Jo Ann Beard


#sister #zanesville #home

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.


Kurt Vonnegut


#giftedness #mental-health #mental-illness #mental-illness

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.


Thomas Aquinas


#any #becomes #catholic #dogma #faith

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.


Giraldus Cambrensis


#being #clime #cunning #excel #gifted

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.


Gavin Bryars


#audience #deliver #few #gifted #like