Able Quote by Barack Obama

I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I knew even…

— Irving Sandler

“If you had the ability to make things right, you would have kept them from going wrong in the first place. That's the problem.…

— Carey Green

I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important…

— Ned Vizzini

Problems can make you smarter. Problems can also make you poorer. How you deal with problems will dictate your success.

— Anonymous

By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew…

— Kamasi Washington

Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

— Norman Spinrad

~ Knowing the mistakes of the others is likely to know the deficiency of oneself. ~

— Vince

“I am not more gifted than the average human being. If you know anything about history, you would know that is so--what hard times…

— Albert Einstein