Gifted Quotes - Page 23

• Gifted students represent a vital resource that has unlimited potential. We need to make sure that these exceptional young people have the support and services they need to be successful.

  Chuck Grassley

  Successful, Unlimited Potential, People

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• Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

  Daniel Goleman

  Heart, Wind, Two

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• The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Humor, Ignorant, Enlightened

  Francis Alexander Durivage (1856). “The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage: And Other Tales”, p.52

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• Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

  Terence Tao

  Doe, Process, Complexes

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• God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Teeth, Bells

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• Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Eye, History

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations”, p.6

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• The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.

  James Joyce

  Success, Dream, Artist

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1542, Delphi Classics

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• When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.

  Aaron Copland

  Music, Thinking, Listening

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• We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?

  Chris Abani

  Hero, Thinking, Hunting

  Chris Abani (2014). “The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel”, p.91, Penguin

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• It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live.

  Caryl Parker Haskins

  Twilight, Rivers, Unorthodox

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• We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.

  Robert Genn

  Amazing Life, Complaining, Has Beens

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• There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, Powerful, War

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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• People are so prone to lean upon gifted men. And if they cannot have such, they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together and helping one another by their mutual faith.

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Christian, Men, People

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• I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

  Nat Wolff

  Dad, Live In The Moment, Acting

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

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• A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet received the attention they deserve.

  Willis Lamb

  Teaching, Measurement, Attention

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