Book Quote by Ryan Howes

“One is free from depression,” writes Alice Miller in The Drama of the Gifted Child, “when self-esteem is based on the authenticity of one’s…

— John Bradshaw

“Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The Drama of…

— Robert B. Parker

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

— Itzhak Perlman

“Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate…

— Janae B. Weinhold

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth…

— Alice Miller

Every child is a gifted child,

— Toru Kumon

It's a rare parent who can see his or her child clearly and objectively. At a school boardmeeting I attended . . . the…

— Anonymous

The smaller and younger kids are, the more patient you have to be. But if they're gifted, then it's a wonderful present that you're…

— Michael Haneke

I asked Mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldnt have paid for me.

— Anonymous

I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.

— Bill Watterson

I learnt German as well as English, so by the time I was three my parents has already decided I was a gifted child.

— Gyles Brandreth

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

— Doris Lessing

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang