Gifted Quotes - Page 17

• I would like to see a critical mass of very gifted anarchists come together in an appropriate place in order to do highly productive work. That's it. I don't know why that can't be done except for the fact that I think that people mistrust their own ideals today. I don't think that they don't believe in them; I think they mistrust the viability of them. They're afraid to commit themselves to their ideals.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Thinking, Productive Work

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for transcendence, can only appropriate it if it is wholly given by the reach and power of God's grace.

  Francis J. Beckwith

  Moving, Home, Catholic

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• I Am Really Gifted To Play Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.

  Michael Hussey

  Epic, Play, Ms Dhoni

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• Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Equality, Men, Liberty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women”

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• It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on drilling a born half-ape until people think they have made a lawyer out of him, while millions of members of the highest culture- race must remain in entirely unworthy positions; that it is a sin against the will of the Eternal Creator if His most gifted beings by the hundreds and hundreds of thousands are allowed to degenerate in the present proletarian morass, while Hottentots and Zulu Kaffirs are trained for intellectual professions.

  Adolf Hitler

  Thinking, Race, People

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• Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Sexy, Aphrodisiac, Talent

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• The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Art, School

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• The mysteries of the faith are not to [be] explained rashly to anyone. Usually in fact, they cannot be understood by everyone but only by those who are qualified to understand them with informed intelligence. The depth of the divine Scriptures is such that not only the illiterate and uninitiated have difficulty understanding them, but also the educated and the gifted.

  Pope Innocent III

  Understanding, Religion, Atheism

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• He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

  Pindar

  Inspiration, Genius, Natural

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• I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Southern, Theory, Madhouses

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• To me writing was not a career but a necessity. And so it remains, though I am now, technically, a professional writer. The strength of this inborn desire to write has always baffled me. It is understandable that the really gifted should feel an overwhelming urge to use their gift; but a strong urge with only a slight gift seems almost a genetic mistake.

  Dervla Murphy

  Strong, Mistake, Writing

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• As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.

  Margaret Halsey

  Communication, Culture, Inferiority

  Margaret Halsey (1964). “The Corrupted Giant: A Speculation on American Politics and Morals”

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• My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

  Mark Twain

  German Language, Years, Down And

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.378, Xist Publishing

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• LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Intelligent, Thinking, Numbers

  "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.

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• Every problem that the country faces is being solved in some community by some group or some individual. The question is how to get connected so that the whole nation can solve problems. A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense; partners in civilization.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Thinking, Civilization

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• I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Believe, Writing, Gifted Writers

  "Mandy Patinkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2012.

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• Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an energetic, desperate haven for scores of gifted hustling children from every rung of the ladder. Guitar bums and stoned-out beauties in Victorian dresses. Junkie poets, playwrights, broke-down filmmakers, and French actors. Everybody passing through here is somebody, if not in the outside world.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Children, Guitar

  "Just Kids". Book by Patti Smith, www.cbc.ca. January 4, 2011.

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• Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

  Heinrich Heine

  Mean, Solitude, Individuality

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• Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

  Lucille Ball

  People, Mets, Homosexual

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• I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't continue to make use of that gift. It's very important that you don't let the muscle get flabby. It's really hard, as an old human being, to press as much weight as you pressed when you were a kid.

  Merle Haggard

  Writing, Kids, Important

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• The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes is an excellent book for student athletes to understand what it takes to be successful. It covers all phases of life, and it is filled with wonderful wisdom. Illustrated by brilliant examples of very successful people, The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes forces student athletes to use their common sense as they work to achieve their goals. Raven Magwood is a very talented person and an extremely gifted writer.

  Danny Ford

  Book, Athlete, Successful

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• If you don't have any haters, you're not that gifted.

  Bishop Noel Jones

  Ifs

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• Cristiano is an explosive type of player, with great technique, but he's still not as gifted as Messi in my opinion. Messi is more of a genius than Cristiano. Cristiano is so strong physically, so powerful, but Messi has more creativity.

  Fabio Capello

  Strong, Powerful, Creativity

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• There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but difficult pupil with derision and constant punishment. The aim is to bring out the best in the victim and to make him into a he-man or...a he-woman.

  Philip French

  Father, Men, Hollywood

  "The Guardian" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.

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• When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.

  Roger Ebert

  Film Critics, Target, Today

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