Gifted Quotes

413 Gifted quotes by 361 unique authors

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that… — Robert Silverberg
I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late. — Elizabeth Jane Howard
Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are… — Anthony Hecht
As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she… — Clive James
Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you… — Barbara Sher
Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you… — Barbara Sher
A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning… — Paul Robeson
Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon. — Merlin Mann
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of… — Heinrich Heine
However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of… — Simone de Beauvoir
I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold. — George Linnaeus Banks
The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable… — Robert Cialdini
Every man and woman alive is gifted by God in some special way. People who have a self-image of worth are going to see value… — William Walton
The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists,… — David Foster Wallace
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… — James Cameron
Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and… — Robert Greene
In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians. — James R Newman
We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role. — Brenda Ueland
We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener… — Brenda Ueland
The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the… — Henry Ford
Duane Allman was one of the best there ever was ... when you listen to him, you are hearing a truly gifted individual giving his… — Richard Betts
It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being,… — Henri Matisse
One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future. — Tao Lin
Duncan Edwards is the one person who, even today, I really felt inferior to. I've never know anybody so gifted and strong and powerful with… — Bobby Charlton

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