Quotes About Giftedness

The disease that has, on several occasions, nearly killed me does kill tens of thousands of people every year: most are young, most die unnecessarily, and many are among the most imaginative and gifted that we as a society have.

If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right.

Talent Katerina is a dangerous thing

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

Let the path be open to talent.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

If you got talent, you just have to do you.

I always like to say that you've got to... use all your talent.

A lot of people don't realize the skills and talent that I have.

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

God has blessed me with the in-born talent for which I pour my heart out in the form of music.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

Talent is talent.

Talent is seductive.

So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.

God has granted you a special talent. It's now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.