Kate Smith Quotes

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

I'd rather not talk about myself in terms of stepping up a level or things like that because I prefer to do my work during the week and then show my best in the game.

Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

I'm not in this league to be an All-Star. I'm not in this league to make the Hall of Fame. I'm not in this league to make the all-defensive team.

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

The true test of humility is whether you can say grace before eating crow.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

I feel it's important to point out that I've earned my humility by being a jackass - like, I trip and fall on my face and say, "Oh, right. Don't think you're a big shot, because you've got a bloody nose now." So it's hard to say.

He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

I feel like I'm wearing orthopedic shoes, because I stand corrected.

Ma sex game is stupid, my head is the dumbest, I promise, I should be hooked on phonics.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

It's hard for me to take myself too seriously when I'm constantly experiencing firsthand what an incredible gimp I can be.

It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.

When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists

I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble.

I really didn't study any music. I just picked it up real quick.

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."