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• 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

  Sleep, Math, Lazy

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• 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 more famous. His capacities are solidly established; his promise is nearly infinite.

  Anthony Hecht

  Writing, Promise, Vivid

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• The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less than the diagnosis and cure of the human malady. We follow twelve generations of New York City's Steenwycks family through their forays into phrenology, mesmerism, radium therapy and similar misadventures, a historically rich narrative that Menger-Anderson delivers in striking, elegant prose and with a sure eye for detail. This is a remarkable debut by a writer to watch.

  Ben Fountain

  New York, Eye, Cities

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• One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

  Pat Conroy

  Teacher, Passionate, Ifs

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• An extraordinary set of reminiscences, beautifully put together by an extremely sensitive, even gifted interviewer. It is a jewel.

  Glenda Gilmore

  Jewels, Together, Sensitive

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• I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.

  Veronica Lake

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live.  They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul.

  Daryl Stuermer

  Strong, Heart, Voice

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• I was a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it.

  Lance Mountain

  Fun, Real, Skateboarding

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• The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Art, Careers, Challenges

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• God can, has and will use anybody who is open to serving Him to convey the gospel. He will bless the efforts of His servants whether they are gifted as evangelizers or not.

  George Barna

  Effort, Religion, Use

  George Barna (1995). “Evangelism that works: how to reach changing generations with the unchanging gospel”, Gospel Light Publications

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• God is not about using the mighty but the willing. He is not into using amazing people, just ones who prepared to lay their lives down to him. God is not looking for extraordinary, exceptionally gifted people, just laid down lovers of Jesus who will carry his glory with transparency and not take it for themselves

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, People, Lovers

  Heidi Baker, Rolland Baker (2014). “Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love”, p.62, Chosen Books

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• God has uniquely gifted you to help someone. Be available as God opens doors for you to do so.

  Joyce Meyer

  Doors, Helping, Available

  Joyce Meyer (2011). “Love Out Loud”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

  John W. Gardner

  Creative, Gaps, Individual

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• The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Heart, Mind, Church

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.34, Moody Publishers

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• It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and give the people the inspiration and the drive to make it succeed. In short, the elite.. Every society tries to produce this type. The British have special schools for them: the gifted and talented are sent to Eton and Harrow.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiration, School, People

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• If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. His passing and shooting is of the highest level and he’s the most consistent and naturally gifted player we’ve had for a long, long time.

  Alan Shearer

  Player, Long, Shooting

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• Pele wasn't as gifted as George Best and I would definitely put George above Johan Cruyff because he had more heart.

  Johnny Giles

  Heart, Cruyff

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• Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend.

  Joey Barton

  Player, English History, Legends

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• The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.

  Tibor Fischer

  Effort, May, Danger

  Tibor Fischer (1997). “The Thought Gang”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Men, Class, Firsts

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• I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

  Jaime Escalante

  Believe, Knowledge, Math

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• We are all called to have faith. So all of us are called to evangelize, while some are specially gifted for this ministry.

  Mark Dever

  Ministry, Have Faith

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly gifted Hippasus, discovered irrational numbers that he sent the poor fellow out on a raft to drown, initiating a venerable tradition of professors mistreating their graduate students.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Irrational Numbers, Legends, Students

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.31, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Art, Mind, Sensitive

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.90, Penguin UK

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• Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.

  Thomas Hardy

  Ideas, Color, Intuition

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