Gifted Quotes - Page 16

• I know there are problems that I say to myself, If maybe I was a little more gifted I might have been able to solve. But that's not because I believe what I did was a mistake. It's that maybe it required the talents of a Lincoln.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Believe, Littles

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!

  T. D. Jakes

  Greatness, Hair, Shining

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D'Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Age, Pickles, Cynicism

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.116, Harmony

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• My father is an absolute inspiration and such a gifted filmmaker. I have learned and continue to learn so much from him.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Father, Inspiration, I Have Learned

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was conscious of language and words.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Father, Language

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• Boxing is not brutal, it's an art - God has gifted me with incredible handspeed as a tool to be used - what else am I supposed to do but fight? There ain't no hand-racing competitions.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Art, Fighting, Hands

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• Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

  Arnold Bennett

  Home, Mind, Problem

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• I do not have a genetically "gifted" body. I have to work hard everyday and I am always working on maintaining a positive self image.

  Kim Lyons

  Hard Work, Self, Everyday

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

  Hans Hofmann

  Discovery, Feelings, Vitality

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• Comandante Fidel Castro is a gifted communicator. He is a brilliant, brilliant mind. But the thing that struck me most about him was he was not a "nationalist."

  Louis Farrakhan

  Mind, Brilliant, Castro

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Irrational, Rationality, Humans

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• A woman's greatest and most perduring failure will be her failure to love. It is certainly not without significance that so many women presently pressing for power on the political, sociological or ecclesial scene are unbeautiful in their unsmilling press for dominance. Contorted faces and clenched fists are particularly repellant in woman, who is gifted with unique powers to radiate love and extend healing hands.

  Mother Mary Francis

  Healing, Unique, Hands

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• My feeling is that anarchists have to think in terms of a specific. I think the dispersal of anarchists all over the place, particularly very gifted ones who can turn out periodicals and do very effective public work, and their tendency to just pick up and take off is a liability.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, Feelings, Anarchist

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

  Hanna Rosin

  Children, Long, Exam

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• There are a lot of things that make players really good coaches. Whether you've played in the NBA or not, there are certain things you have to master and be really good at. They just have to be gifted in these areas. You've got to be competent. Secondly, you've got to be able to communicate. You can have a picture in your mind on how to score but if you can't communicate it, if you can't teach it, what good is it? You've got to be brutally honest and be a man of strong character and then you've got to have class. They've got to respect you.

  Avery Johnson

  Strong, Character, Player

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Basketball has always been a sport I loved and grew up playing. For me, it was one of those things that... I guess baseball was just in my genes a little bit. I have a lot of cousins that played baseball. Basketball is not an easy sport - you definitely got to be gifted to play that game. I felt like I was pretty good at it, but my ability was better in baseball.

  Dellin Betances

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Interview with Peter Richman, bleacherreport.com. July 21, 2014.

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• My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a shoebox. One of the regulars in 'the cafe said to my father: "I think you should get your son an accordion-that's what he's trying to do, with that shoebox." So they got me a little cardboard diatonic accordion-I still have it. I started to play the National Anthem, and things like that. It seems I was musically gifted-but my parents just never pushed in that direction.

  Toots Thielemans

  Father, Son, Sunday

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• I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

  Cillian Murphy

  Moving, Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics.

  David Remnick

  Office, Desire, Retail

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing.

  Wanda Sykes

  Memorable, Firsts, Constructs

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• It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A gifted player, who is not a team player, will ultimately hurt the team.

  John Wooden

  Hurt, Team, Player

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• Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

  Camille Paglia

  People, Degrees, May

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• Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.

  Mel Brooks

  Heart, Gifted Writers, Mind

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• I've always felt very convicted that I didn't want to work in kind of the Christian film-making ghetto. My calling was always to show myself approved and worthy to work at the highest level possible in terms of craft and working with very gifted people and trying to be excellent in everything.

  Brian Bird

  Christian, Ghetto, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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