Best 81 quotes in «gifted quotes» category

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

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

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude.

We all have our own areas where we are gifted or where we struggle and that's at the heart of everyone's journey.

We are all called to have faith. So all of us are called to evangelize, while some are specially gifted for this ministry.

You have been gifted with mental faculties to improve any circumstance around you.

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

When it comes to giving love, the opportunities are unlimited, and we are all gifted.

Your informed, "no," to a particular service allows another to offer their gifted and unreserved, "yes.

Ah, life… ’tis a difficult battle to fight,' said Willoughby, 'but the beautiful moments will always make up for the sorrow.

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

Childhood does not last forever,' said Juniper. 'Although I believe the childish soul can endure for an eternity.

Any training is initially difficult, but with persistence practice, we can master the art.

As FALL Lifts her Lovely head...her FACE All AGLOW...her SMILE enrapture the souls of men---as her BEAUTIFUL COLORS begin to SHOW. Our Creator's 'Time Clock' is NEVER LATE, as He calls forth the VALLEYS AND THE HILLS...the 'BABBLING BROOKS' run Merrily along---to Keep the BEAUTY still. The Chosen Ones of FALL Lift their limbs toward Heaven...as our Creator gives the COMMAND: 'Your Faces are washed---PRESENT YOUR COLORS---STAND EVER TALL!' And once again mankind is 'GIFTED'...IT IS FALL.

Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.

Femnat ndiejnë shpeshherë ma tepër sesa dijnë, sidomos kur bahet fjalë për jetën dhe ardhmëninë e tyne.

Every single person is gifted. Every single person has an amazing thing and an amazing perspective to offer life! It is inherent in every single person, in each and everyone of us! We ALL have GREATNESS within us! Greatness is every person's venue and birthright, and we have something amazing to offer the world and society. And that is our authentic awesome self. The world needs this now, more than ever!

If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out.

In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in the eye of the beholder. To illustrate, let’s say that you are the only beholder, and your word is final. Would you be able to choose the 1000 most beautiful women in the country? And if that sounds impossible, consider this: Say you’re now looking at your picks. Could you compare them to each other and say which one is more beautiful? For example, who is more beautiful— Katie Holmes or Angelina Jolie? How about Angelina Jolie or Catherine Zeta-Jones? I think intelligence is like this. So many factors are involved that attempts to measure it are useless. Not that IQ tests are useless. Far from it. Good tests work: They measure a variety of mental abilities, and the best tests do it well. But they don’t measure intelligence itself.

Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.

Everyone can find the field in which he is gifted, his favorite activity and devote his time to it, instead of working for a good income, but no satisfaction

Her voice had been such an important part of her life before. The merfolk celebrated her for it. Her father excused her occasionally questionable behavior because of it. Eric loved the girl who rescued him, because of her singing... But... ... she'd never really enjoyed singing for anyone else. In fact, she hated audiences. She sang because she liked to sing. She just... felt... something, and had to sing it. If she were happy, or sad, or angry... she would go off by herself and sing to the coral, sing to the seaweed, sing to an audience of sea snails or tube worms (who listened, but never commented). Most of her mergirlhood had been spent swimming around, exploring, singing to herself. Making up little stories in her head and then putting them into song.

If gifted and you do nothing, you will be in the top 50%. If gifted and you do something, you will be in the top 10%. If gifted and you do everything, you will be in the top 1%

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

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

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

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

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.

Talent silences your competition; genius deafens them.

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.

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.