Gifted Quotes - Page 12

• A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Years, Alchemist

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.381, Penguin

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• It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

  Wilbur Smith

  Men, Strange, Talent

  Wilbur Smith (2008). “Rage”, p.239, Pan Macmillan

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• He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rap, Hip Hop, May

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• I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months. The thing to say to such people is: "See how *bad* a story you can write. See how dull you can be. Go ahead. That would be fun and interesting. I will give you ten dollars if you can write something thoroughly dull from beginning to end!" And of course, no one can.

  Brenda Ueland

  Fun, Writing, People

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• Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger of falling in love, and were it not for his considerable skill in the deadly arts, that he should be in danger of being bested by hers--for never had he seen a lady more gifted in the ways of vanquishing the undead.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Falling In Love, Art, Skills

  Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.49, Quirk Books

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• He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.

  John Irving

  People, Littles

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Names, Voice

  'Northern Farmer. New Style' (1869) st. 5

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• She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

  Bram Stoker

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Bram Stoker (2007). “Dracula”, p.373, Book Jungle

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• If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Flirty, Flirting, Talking

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Law, Violence

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• Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Empowerment, Gender Equality

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.157, A&C Black

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• When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Effort, Decision

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.

  Tom Peters

  Motivational, Teamwork, Spiritual

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• The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

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• The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Teacher, Science, Promise

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• Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Moon, Men

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• You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don't let the storm make you forget it.

  Russell T Davies

  Life, Beautiful, Intelligent

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• One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Teacher, Years

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• This is not the time to shrink back in fear. Move forward in faith. Get up every morning knowing you are gifted.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Morning, Moving

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• Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Greatness, Intellectual

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• Besides P.E., geography was my best class in high school. I was in this gifted class when I was younger, and it was wicked!

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, School, Class

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• When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Good Friend, Reality, Praise

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

  John Donne

  Waiting, Wish, Genius

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• If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Art, Freedom, Hero

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