Quotes About Giftedness

Since they are in fact academically gifted, it is fine to tell them that. Trying to hide their academic ability from them would be futile anyway. But they must also be told explicitly, forcefully, and repeatedly that their intellectual talent is a gift that they have done nothing to deserve. They are not superior human beings, but very, very lucky ones. They should feel humbled by their good luck.

Instead of feeling sorry for the exceptionally able student who has no one to talk to, we need to worry about what happens when the exceptionally able students hang out only with one another.

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

Over the years, we have discovered that when it comes to leaving no child behind, highly gifted students are the most likely to fall through the cracks in American classrooms.

Genius" means extraordinary intellectual ability, and people use the word in two different but related ways. In one sense, genius means high intellectual potential; in the other sense, genius means "creative ability of exceptionally high order as demonstrated by total achievement." This book uses both meanings.

We do not believe that most educators or schools or communities are hostile to the needs of gifted learners. Rather, most people are simply indifferent.

We first answer these questions by saying that schools should not discriminate against gifted kids.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody.

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

Genius is born, not paid.

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for others is genius.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

I think you find amongst ordinary people there are a lot of people that are really talented.

Music. It has always showed me that I could do what the other kids couldn't do. So I will keep playing and singing and entertaining, as long as the good Lord lets me. That is my life.

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

I was good at art - always good at art.

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

Dude, you need to appreciate how goddamn gifted you are. You're so smart that I don't understand what you're talking about half the time, and we all know how brilliant I am." Finn winked. "Matty, you're amazing.

When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success