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Quotes About Gifted

Talented person is talented everywhere.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.
~ Martina Hingis
I think there are some players born to play ball.
~ Joe DiMaggio
The mind is its own place, and the places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience.
~ Aldous Huxley
The mind is its own place, and the places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience. To
~ Aldous Huxley
They weren't the smartest or best trained that humanity had to offer, and they didn't have the best judgment. The truly brilliant, truly gifted, wanted little to do with politics.
~ Douglas E. Richards
And when all was said and done, they were nothing more than civilians who managed to get donors excited enough to give them money, and then win a popularity contest. They weren't the smartest or best trained that humanity had to offer, and they didn't have the best judgment. The truly brilliant, truly gifted, wanted little to do with politics.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Pezhman Mosleh is both a musician and a very fine poet.
~ Dr. Irvin Yalom
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
worth is more than money, and your value is far beyond what you realize. I have never believed that we are human beings seeking a spiritual experience. Instead, I believe that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. The most talented, gifted,
~ Jim Stovall
I was born gifted. I can speak of my gifts with little or no modesty, but with tremendous gratitude, precisely because they are gifts, and not things which I created, or actions about which I might be proud.
~ Joan Baez
And of course all that he is is a gifted man without a moral sense.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are very few people who do what I do.
~ Richard MacDonald
The fighter is born. He cannot be made.
~ Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.
I can do a lot of things that other fighters can't.
~ Mikey Garcia
There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.
~ Gene Robinson
God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.
~ Marcello Giordani
I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.
~ Alex Rodriguez
Beyonce is incredibly talented - gifted, in fact. She has an exceptional set of pipes and can actually sing. She is a terrific dancer - without the explicit moves best left for the privacy of her bedroom.
~ Mike Huckabee
I was introduced to theater by a teacher that found me when I was in elementary school. She tested me for the Gifted and Talented program, started taking me to see the 'Nutcracker Ballet.' I got involved.
~ Todrick Hall
If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
~ Roberto Cavalli
You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.
~ Robin Gibb
You are gifted and capable beyond your wildest imagination. You have not yet begun to explore all the ways you can make your life count for eternity. Strength and dignity are your clothing. It's time for you to drop your bucket deep down into the well of possibilities that you've been ignoring all these years. Drop it all the way down and see what you pull up." I
~ Robin Jones Gunn
In so many things I loved I was sadly insufficiently gifted and driven. But writing I could plod along with -- and no one discouraged me. People were much kinder. I headed toward the kindness.
~ Lorrie Moore