Quotes About Giftedness

Alicia Gris sees what the rest don't see. Her mind works differently from the rest. Where everyone else sees a locked door, she sees a key. Where others lose track, she picks up the trail. It's a gift, one could say. And the best thing is that no one sees her coming.

Normally, the more talent one has, the more one doubts it," I said. "And vice versa." "Then I must be quite something," Isabella replied.

Normally, the more talent one has, the more one doubts it," I said. "And vice versa.

El mundo no es el lugar amoral que has conocido hasta ahora, Alicia. El mundo es simplemente un espejo de quienes lo formamos y no es ni más ni menos que lo que hacemos de él entre todos. Por eso las personas que, como tú y como yo, nacemos con un don tenemos la responsabilidad de utilizarlo por lo bien de los demás. El mío es saber reconocer el talento en otros y guiarlos para que llegado el momento puedan tomar la decisión adecuada.

Messi has a divine gift.

Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.

but what about students with exceptional intelligence who could compensate?

What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

Being gifted needs courage.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.

You were not given permission to have talent," the captain tells me.

I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

Often individuals whose mental gifts so far outpaced their contemporaries, tended to lack the social graces commensurate with their other accomplishments.

And what's so heroic, they would say, about having a gift?

It's as if Midori popped out of the womb fiddling, Michael Jordan dribbling, and Picasso doodling. This captures the fixed mindset perfectly.

To every man according to his ability.

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.

Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.

Enjoy and encourage your children's love of learning, but foster their play, responsibility, imagination, affection, and fun so they can grow as whole as well as gifted children.

What are you going to do with what you have been given?

I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about.