Quotes About Giftedness

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.

When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.

I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.

God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

God made me a singer, and I just sang.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

Many people in the world have a talent from God, but they do not know him

I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

There's a genius in all of us.

Intelligence and genius

You have to be born with enough brainpower.

He spoke as if He rather sympathized with the feeling in favor of celibacy,--as if to abstain from marriage were the better and wiser way, and only not to be required of men because for the majority it was impracticable. "But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

I'm not interested in doing 'Star Wars.' It's an amazing movie, but that's not my gift. I tell the stories that I tell that relate to the people who love what I do. That is the place and the path that I know I am supposed to be on. The minute I try and go do something else, it will be amazing to watch how quickly that don't work.

What everybody has seen from me is very little compared to what I'm capable of doing.

Maybe the lesson is: Know when to brag and when to keep your mouth shut. Or: Sometimes life isn't fair, even if you are as gifted as Athena. Or maybe: Don't give away free tapestries.

A truly great artist has many talents.

Magnus, it may shock you to learn that I do not have every talent in the world. Just most of the important ones.