Best 81 quotes in «gifted quotes» category

Make no mistake, no one has ever become great by mistake.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

Talented man cannot do the work of a genius man.

Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.

...my awakening life. I am awake in the present. The present is today. Today is a great gift.

Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them become ordinary people. There, I said it. The worst thing a 21st-century child of interesting parents could be: ordinary. Like us.

Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.

Talent silences your competition; genius deafens them.

Owing to the shape of a bell curve, the education system is geared to the mean. Unfortunately, that kind of education is virtually calculated to bore and alienate gifted minds. But instead of making exceptions where it would do the most good, the educational bureaucracy often prefers not to be bothered. In my case, for example, much of the schooling to which I was subjected was probably worse than nothing. It consisted not of real education, but of repetition and oppressive socialization (entirely superfluous given the dose of oppression I was getting away from school). Had I been left alone, preferably with access to a good library and a minimal amount of high-quality instruction, I would at least have been free to learn without useless distractions and gratuitous indoctrination. But alas, no such luck. Let’s try to break the problem down a bit. The education system […] is committed to a warm and fuzzy but scientifically counterfactual form of egalitarianism which attributes all intellectual differences to environmental factors rather than biology, implying that the so-called 'gifted' are just pampered brats who, unless their parents can afford private schooling, should atone for their undeserved good fortune by staying behind and enriching the classroom environments of less privileged students. This approach may appear admirable, but its effects on our educational and intellectual standards, and all that depends on them, have already proven to be overwhelmingly negative. This clearly betrays an ulterior motive, suggesting that it has more to do with social engineering than education. There is an obvious difference between saying that poor students have all of the human dignity and basic rights of better students, and saying that there are no inherent educationally and socially relevant differences among students. The first statement makes sense, while the second does not. The gifted population accounts for a very large part of the world’s intellectual resources. As such, they can obviously be put to better use than smoothing the ruffled feathers of average or below-average students and their parents by decorating classroom environments which prevent the gifted from learning at their natural pace. The higher we go on the scale of intellectual brilliance – and we’re not necessarily talking just about IQ – the less support is offered by the education system, yet the more likely are conceptual syntheses and grand intellectual achievements of the kind seldom produced by any group of markedly less intelligent people. In some cases, the education system is discouraging or blocking such achievements, and thus cheating humanity of their benefits.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

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

Raindrops are nothing more than a lullaby for the restless soul.

Some people are troubled by their mediocrity. Some, by their greatness.

So, what can I do?” I asked. “Annoy?” I gave him a hurt look. Justus pulled the tip of his hoodie over his eye and lowered his voice. “It remains to be seen; sometimes it takes years to uncover abilities.” “Maybe I can’t do anything.” His blue eyes flashed up to mine. “Learner, we are all gifted.

Talent is often suffocated by the desire to be deemed talented.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. (Enoch Root observes six-year-old Isaac Newton)

The mysterious Enoch Root meets 8-year-old Benjamin Franklin, Boston, 1713: "Do I look like a schoolmaster to you?" "No, but you talk like one." "You know something of schoolmasters, do you?" "Yes, sir," the boy says, faltering a bit as he sees the jaws of the trap swinging toward his leg. "Yet here it is the middle of Monday—" "The place was empty 'cause of the Hanging. I didn't want to stay and—" "And what?" "Get more ahead of the others than I was already." "If you are ahead, the correct thing is to get used to it—not to make yourself into an imbecile. Come, you belong in school.

There are times when the unseen can be even more dangerous than what our eyes behold.

The vast majority of people are each the greatest only at being them.

Visions from the gods are gifts alone for those who wander.

When his parents announced the newest rules to Jamal, he defiantly announced back to them that, as a matter of principle, he would not be "manipulated or forced into complying with a Fascist parenting style.

When you are born you have two different potential for the world: You will either be a gift to the world or a trouble to the world!

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

The most gifted of [the Proletariate], who might possibly become a nuclei of discontent, are simply marked down by the Thought Police and eliminated.

The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon.

The quiet ones, the introverts, are uniquely gifted. We have tremendous patience and empathy. We don’t need to say much, yet we’re able to build deep connections and rapport with those around us. The act of displaying Quiet Confidence is much easier to cultivate than we think. It’s built-in, a bundled accessory, we simply have to activate it!

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...

Upon the gifted among the misfits lies the burden of building new worlds.

We each harbour a talent. It hibernates within us, snug yet eager, waiting for the first darling buds of opportunity to emerge.

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.

Bella [Hadid] is also very naturally gifted in beauty so she can also go whenever she wants to go to the gym.

Talent is given to us by our nature. Greatness, by our efforts.

George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

Every child is a gifted child.

Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

I Am Really Gifted To Play Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.

I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.

In the midst of chaos, you've gotta be able to slow it down. That's one of the things that God's gifted me with, it's one of the things that I've trained for, and train for now.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing.

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.

I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics.

It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.