You know we'd just had a birthday he was... you know he still had a future out of him and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man and it's a loss to the world not just for us.

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.

Attitude is more important than the past than education than money than circumstances than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance giftedness or skill.

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

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.