Quotes About Giftedness

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

Being the best at something. We can't all be equally talented at everything.

Your talent makes you who your are.You should be proud of it.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others.

Zivojinovic seems to be able to pull the big bullet out of the top drawer

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

many high-functioning multiples are gifted writers and artists, who, as they heal, are able to find an aesthetic outlet for the sealed-off rage and pain they have not allowed themselves to feel.

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Gifted people cannot escape a sense of calling, a mandate to put their abilities to the test of time and constructive purpose. This is the true legacy of giftedness, the sense of responsibility to leave something valuable behind.

The idiosyncrasies of giftedness are rarely seen as "different = interesting," but instead are deemed "different = wrong.

their intellectual and emotional intensities, are mistaken for something else; hence there are mistaken identities by the millions. Instead of being viewed as exceptionally aware, insightful, and responsive, gifted people naturally exhibit traits that are considered excessive.

Unless we understand how it really works and find a a way to express it, giftedness can become a heavy burden.

They realize they are intense, complex, and driven, but they have been taught that their strong personalities are perceived as excessive, too different from the norm, and consequently wrong. In a culture that often equates different with wrong, it's inevitable that gifted adults point a critical finger

Seeing and acknowledging how gifted assets can get out of control and become liabilities is possibly the most significant step in the quest to complete healing. Consequently we must deal with the shadow side of giftedness—our false-self reactions to people and situations when our primary wounds are reopened—or when our unmanaged assets turn against us in the form of disorderly conduct.

it is the desire of the gifted person to live authentically and not suppress the First Nature traits that produce what some consider aberrant behavior.

In many ways, commonplace ratings such as "normal/abnormal" and "acceptable/unacceptable" hamper the gifted person who requires not either/or dichotomies but an accepting,

gifted children perceive the world in fundamentally different ways

Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.

To be envied for your giftedness is better than to be accepted for your untalentedness.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

Of good natural parts, and of a liberal education.

Let the path be open to talent.