Best 81 quotes in «gifted quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

Talented man cannot do the work of a genius man.

Talent silences your competition; genius deafens them.

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

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

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

Every child is a gifted child.

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

Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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

My brother, who was older, was the gifted one, much more talented than I.

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 wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the room at him.

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.

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

Oh, yes, that feels so good," I moaned, and instead of punching Ian, pulled him closer. Breath tickled my neck as he laughed. "I know. I'm truly gifted.