Champion Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“I think that could go back to the time when people had to live in small groups of relatives—maybe fifty or a hundred people…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“...simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall…

— Shannon L. Alder

“I was obviously born to draw better than most people, just as the widow Berman and Paul Slazinger were obviously born to tell stories…

— Kurt Vonnegut

People still struggle with this notion of gifted writers somehow being in touch with a higher power, but it's all about showing up and…

— Laura Lippman

“Some gifted people have so many interests and talents they scatter themselves among so many projects and activities they cannot finish things or do…

— Harris Crenshaw

Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence.…

— Terry Bradshaw

“A life lived outside of one's giftedness is a complete and utter travesty. It deprives the world of the beauty we each bring to…

— Shirley Houston

Giftedness gives you this amazing tool kit for handling self-discipline and gives you an area of knowledge, but then it also gives you this…

— Alissa Quart

When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.

— Kristin Armstrong

“Discipline transforms the gifted to the great.”

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez