Quotes About Giftedness

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

Gifted children tend to be very impatient and need constant stimulation, otherwise they become aggressive.

An average person has an IQ of 100. An above-average person has an IQ of 120 to 140. A person with an IQ of 150 is considered a genius. Janine's IQ is 196. Sometimes

Each of us thinks we have just cause for elevating ourselves and despising all others in comparison to ourselves—our self-love ruins us with such blindness. If, in fact, God has gifted us with something that is good in itself, we immediately make it the basis for praising ourselves to such a degree that we not only swell up but almost burst with pride.

accepting that no one person can relate to all of you. Indeed, accepting the loneliness that goes with giftedness may be the most freeing, empowering step of all. But also accept its opposite, that there's no need to feel isolated, for everyone is gifted in some way.

In other words, expand your use of your giftedness beyond producing the most noticed ideas at work. Use it to attain greater self-insight and to gain wisdom about human beings in groups and organizations.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

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

I got the performance gene.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

I'm a bordering genius.

I consider everything I compose a gift.

I've got some genetic gifts.

I write what's given me to write.

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

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have been blessed with a small key to the world of the young. It's a place where good and evil are clearly stamped. It's a place where the better part of human nature triumphs over tragedies, and where innocence rides high. It is a great pleasure to write there, because the young have what the rest of us only envy, and that is a belief in goodness and perpetual hope.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

You have a genius.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

Lord God, to be born with no talent is bad enough, but to have a macabre and febrile imagination as well is a curse.

Why is it so hard to develop a point of view? Why do we hesitate when we say to the world, Here, I made this? And what's the alternative to hesitating? These don't sound like marketing questions, but in fact, if you let them sit unanswered, they're getting in the way of your marketing. People who aren't as gifted or generous as you are running circles around you, because they are showing up as professionals. And yet, too many people with something to offer are holding themselves back.

Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.

One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.