Quotes About Giftedness

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

I think I have a natural hitting ability.

Everyone is special in there own way, Mitya, she said softly

Where God has gifted us, there is a niche for us to fill. Let's be faithful in looking for it.

Nature has frequently planted astonishing genius in men of monstrously ugly appearance.

Most people are not truly talented at anything. However, most people can be pretty good at something.

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

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

Being gifted needs courage.

don't think people with talent necessarily value it, because it all comes so easy to them, and we never value things that come easy to us.

But when you're naturally better than everyone else, and when that talent is so utterly obvious, being quiet doesn't translate as humble. It translates as boredom.

The problem with being talented and gifted is sometimes you get too smart. My uncle Henry says the importance of eating a good breakfast is because your brain is still growing. But nobody talks about how, sometimes, your brain can get just too big.

For of those to whom much is given, much is required." Since Ohlmeyer was a gifted mathematician, much

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Brontë who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to.

There is only one school: that of talent.

You don't realize the gift you have.

To whom much is given, much is expected

A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.

Can't tell, Si. Never had no talent that way.

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.

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.

You are either born a writer or you are not.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

If God has given you a talent, do not use it ungratefully.