Gifted Quote by Thomas Carlyle Download Open image “A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.” — Thomas Carlyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gifted Surplus
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have. — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
Focusing on the gifted always leaves people behind, and portrays working-class people as a repellent hinterland that 'gifted' and 'talented' children need rescuing from. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“...simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a… — Andrew Loomis Copy Share Image
The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding — John Knowles Copy Share Image
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody knows what they were kind of drawn towards or what they're gifted at and it's more of courage and looking at yourself and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a gem of… — L. Jon Wertheim Copy Share Image
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I… — Kajol Copy Share Image
I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
