Quotes About Giftedness

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

God is unveiling women around the world. He always has and continues to work through women and girls, who are half of His church. They are, like men and boys, His image bearers. They are also, like men and boys, gifted, empowered, smart, and anointed.

You are good at something for a reason. God designed you this way, on purpose. It isn't fake or a fluke or small. These are the mind and heart and hands and voice you've been given, so use them.

I believe that gay people are different, uniquely gifted with the insights and brilliance that stepping outside the heterosexual norm has given us. That is exactly the source of our power.

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

God has blessed me with a certain amount of presence and a certain amount of charisma.

Having one of the highest IQs ever measured is as much a curse as it is a blessing. My parents were great, though: they were always seeking the most difficult presents possible for me - Rubik's cubes and things like that.

Some of us are born Gladys Knights, and some of us are born Pips.

Some can do things others cannot," Nandera said, as if that was enough explanation.

A genius is someone who excels at something. But a genius isn't necessarily good at everything. In fact, a genius usually has a special ability in one area while being pretty average in others.

As Thomas Armstrong explains in his book Neurodiversity, the ADHD label is a "tragic decoy" because "the child is reduced to an 'ADD child' where the potential to see the best in him or her is severely eroded (since ADD/ADHD puts all the emphasis on the deficits, not the strengths)."22 This concern is echoed in the field of dual exceptionalities, which recognizes that many characteristics of giftedness are commonly misdiagnosed as ADHD.

recognized that he was a genius" (67)

brilliance is a kind of binary thing. You either got it or you don't. If you do, a 130 IQ and a 170 aren't that different, so long as you know how to apply what you got.

What are the two or three things that you and only you are responsible for? What, specifically, have you been hired to do? What is "success" for the person in your position? Now let's slice it even thinner. Of the two or three things that define success for you, which of those are in line with your giftedness? Of the tasks you have been assigned to do, which of them are you specifically gifted to do?

My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went to school for music production, but I know exactly how a song should sound and how to give an artist direction.

I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.

A genius temperament should be handled with care.

Dedication and discipline beats brilliance and giftedness every day of the week. And

Dedication and discipline beats brilliance and giftedness every day of the week.

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

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

You can never have enough talent.

I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.