Gifted Quotes - Page 20

• We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar the way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sex, Women, Fall

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• Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Way, Novelists, Purpose

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• If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I do not rise in the estimation of the reader for acts of gallantry and devotion in my country's cause, at least I may claim the merit of zealous and persevering continuance in my vocation. We are all of us variously gifted from Above, and he who is content to walk, instead of to run, on his allotted path through life, although he may not so rapidly attain the goal, has the advantage of not being out of breath upon his arrival.

  Frederick Marryat

  Running, Country, Book

  Frederick Marryat (1870). “Peter Simple”, p.1

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• Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

  Thomas A. Bailey

  Art, Children, Men

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• I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

  Plato

  Death, Men, Hours

  Plato, M. G. Epictetus (2010). “The Apology, Phaedo and Crito by Plato; The Golden Sayings by Epictetus; The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions.... I now speak of extensive scholarship and ripe culture in science and art.... It is not large possessions, it is large expectations, or rather large hopes, that stimulate the ambition of the young.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Art, Ambition, Men

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• In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Powerful, Greatness, Heaven

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• We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.

  Susan Mitchell

  Acting, Culture, Dublin

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• Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

  Ray Bradbury

  Lonely, World, Fame

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• Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Greatness, Men

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• He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Retirement, Retribution, Extras

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• We've been gifted with the power of choice...in our actions, our thoughts, and our words. The quality of our lives gets better or worse depending on which direction we go with our choices.

  Shawn Anderson

  Choices, Get Better, Quality

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• If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Men, Self

  Charles Dickens (1849). “Barnaby Rudge ... With a frontispiece drawn by Hablot Knight Browne, etc”, p.6

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• While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Hard Work, Thinking, Office

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• It doesn't make any difference how much money a father earns, his name is always Dad-Can-I.... Like all other children, my five have one great talent: they are gifted beggars. Not one of them ever ran into the room, looked up at me, and said, "I'm really happy that you're my father, and as a tangible token of my appreciation, here's a dollar.

  Bill Cosby

  Appreciation, Children, Dad

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• What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?

  Raymond Chandler

  Taken, Writing, Men

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.278, Vintage

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• it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a highly articulate Siamese and progress in time to the more sensitive and difficult business of talking to scared strays. Other people, naturally gifted, can talk to any cat right away.

  Patricia Moyes

  Cat, Winning, Talking

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• It was not very easy for a woman to impose herself as a modern artist in Germany… Most of our male colleagues continued for a long time to look upon us as charming and gifted amateurs, denying us implicitly any real professional status.

  Hannah Hoch

  Real, Artist, Long

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• Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.

  Chris Abani

  Sibling, Successful, Artist

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• We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world. He brought us the moral code and so on, belief in one God, but then he was a bad navigator. He brought us to the only part of the Middle East without any gas, without any oil.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Oil, People

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Strong, Hate, Special

  Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.159, Vintage

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• In the beginning, we're told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed and word-gifted; and the light and darkness get named again. In our day, that someone is Buechner.

  John Ortberg

  Light, Darkness, Obsessed

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• Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's workings; and, spite of all your skill, I read to the depths." This is a truth more or less powerful, as one is more or less gifted by the good God.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Art, Powerful, Eye

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• If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

  Grace Hartigan

  Fighting, Equality, Men

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• I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.

  Joseph Mawle

  Enjoyed, Knows

  "Joseph Mawle: 'I've played some despicable characters'". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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