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Quotes About Gifted

The time be gone forever when the like of me's to suck thy arse 'cause of a poxy title which like as not were gifted first to a king's whore, a king's bastard, or buyed by knife in a king's back.
~ James Clavell
You'll be able to find many unemployed actors, you know? I've been gifted a wonderful career, and to now be able to find myself in a place where someone can look at the course I've charted and say, 'I can do that,' or 'I can do even better!' is a privileged position to be in.
~ Ng Chin Han
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.
~ Jimmy Iovine
I'm gifted to coach. I know that. And the relationships I've built with players, coaches, support staff, I'm gifted to coach and I love coaching and I want to coach.
~ Brian Flores
I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.
~ James Cameron
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.
~ Thomas Andrew Bailey
Prince Rogers Nelson was the most gifted artist of the rock era. Not the greatest genius - just the most musical in the broadest sense.
~ Robert Christgau
If you talk about natural ability, I think Apollo's probably the most naturally gifted athlete of the new era.
~ Sheamus
He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.
~ Nick Hornby
There is no privilege as great as that enjoyed by those 'To Whom Things Come Easily'.
~ Nick Laird
They say some are born healers. Selected." The Jew smiled at him. "Of course, others are simply lucky
~ Noah Gordon
They say some are born healers. Selected." The Jew smiled at him. "Of course, others are simply lucky," he said.
~ Noah Gordon
The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don't recognize as real.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se...I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in doing. They have a way of getting good at whatever it is.
~ Charles Eames
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them."
~ Charles Edward Montague
Gretchen, talent doesn't have anything to do with a person's background or education. Did you ever see Amadeus? It's the story of Mozart and his rivalry with Antonio Salieri. Salieri hated Mozart because he thought God had given this great talent to an undeserving idiot. Talent isn't earned, it's given. It's like getting hit by lightning in the middle of a wet pasture. People don't sign up for it.
~ James Lee Burke
Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.
~ Anna Camp
Each of us has been gifted uniquely by God, and should use it to good capacity.
~ Nagma
It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.
~ Gavin Bryars
We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.
~ Mike Crapo
If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.
~ Grace Hartigan
I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula