Gifted Quotes - Page 22

• Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

  Patti Smith

  Unanswered Questions, Path, Twisted

  Song: Pissing in a River, Album: Radio Ethiopia

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• I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's doing with the Auto-Tune is actually creative because he just writes good melodies. He just writes good songs. He's just gifted.

  Will Ferrell

  Song, Writing, Artist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phénomène", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.

  African Spir

  Men, Intelligent, Abuse

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 48), 1937.

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• Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Children, Mean, Winning

  "'Art of Learning' isn't just black and white". Interview with Tracey Wong Briggs, usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 17, 2007.

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• I would kill to do more work with Orla Brady, I think she's that gifted.

  John Noble

  Thinking, Brady

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. May 6, 2011.

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• I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

  Samantha Morton

  Actors, Breathe

  "Samantha Morton: 'I was abused for a long time and I retaliated'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Class, People

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• What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

  Ben Whishaw

  Ideas, People, Bigs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• usta be young usta be gifted - still black.

  Wanda Coleman

  Black, Young, Stills

  Wanda Coleman (1998). “Bathwater Wine”, p.100, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Reading, Character, Memorable

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• O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Book, Writing

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.129, Univ of California Press

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• Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is dense, poetic, and image-ridden. It is always a substantial and genuine thing. At its finest it is one which goes beyond an art of mere appearances to one of mysterious actuality.

  William Walsh

  Art, White, Achievement

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• The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Reading, Understanding

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• The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Eye, Heart, Reality

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.199

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• If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would but turn their thoughts inwardly, they would probably find that they have a great work to do at home; and that, when that shall have been completed, they will be little disposed to do more towards correcting the vices of others, than simply to give to others the results of their experience and observation.

  Lysander Spooner

  Home, Men, Giving

  Lysander Spooner (2006). “Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Honesty, Hopeful, Intellectual

  Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy (2001). “The Power of Ideas”, p.52, Princeton University Press

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• What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

  Gene Edwards

  Men, Broken, Doe

  Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.42, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

  New York, Journalist, New York Times

  "David Carr, New York Times Media Columnist, Has Died at 58" by Stephen M. Silverman, people.com. February 13, 2015.

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• The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.

  Jerry Goldsmith

  Class, Able, Firsts

  "Music for the Movies". Book by Tony Thomas, p. 209, 1973.

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• My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.

  Aga Khan IV

  Art, Book, Past

  "My Beloved Grandfather: A few words by Mowlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan IV". www.amaana.org. November 1977.

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• What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

  Madeline Kahn

  Men, Creating, Today

  "Broadway Babylon: Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way". Book by Boze Hadleigh, 2007.

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• The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Space, Privilege, Function

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• Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.

  Paul Russo

  Creating, Leaving, Genius

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• Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mother, Blessed, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.264

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• Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Heart, Order

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.50

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