Top 100 Not Gifted Quotes
#2. Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.
Kobayashi Issa
#3. Wanderlust. These are words that I associate with him now. Not genius. Not gifted. Extraordinary in any way.
Abigail George
#4. The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas Aquinas
#5. I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?
Anne Hathaway
#6. For many scientists less divinely gifted than Einstein,the chief reward for being a scientist is not the power and the money but the chance of catching a glimpse of the transcendent beauty of nature.
Freeman Dyson
#7. I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.
Jessie Snow
#8. 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
#9. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
Richard J. Foster
#11. The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important.
Nina Jacobson
#12. I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.
George Linnaeus Banks
#13. 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
#15. No one takes whats mine. fate has gifted me this female. Destiny does not allow exchanges
Marata Eros
#16. Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.
Ben Carson
#17. I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.
Andie MacDowell
#18. Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.
Warren G. Bennis
#19. He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.
Michael Eric Dyson
#20. The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon.
Al Alvarez
#21. She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.
Michael Cunningham
#22. 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
#23. The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and education and for using their endowments in ways that help the less fortunate as well.
John Rawls
#24. Gifted with a liberty they know not how to use; with a power and energy they know not how to apply; with a life whose purpose and aim they comprehend not; they drag through their useless and convulsed existence. Byron
Charles Eliot
#25. I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.
Bob Weir
#26. I know that I'm talented, and I know that I'm not in American Ballet Theater because I'm black - I'm here because I'm a gifted dancer.
Misty Copeland
#27. I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.
Joseph Mawle
#28. 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
#29. Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.
Don Meyer
#30. There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.
Marian Seldes
#31. When exercising gifted will-power, move boldly without hesitation. The reward for such decisiveness is increased confidence in what the heart knows, which the mind does not feel
T.F. Hodge
#33. I cheated when I gifted Tier. And this makes me smile, because it was so easy and simple. And it was something my father never understood.
Love is earned, not mandated.
So I loved Tier back.
Fiercely.
J.A. Huss
#34. On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
Andy Hargreaves
#35. To know a person's character you must at least have talked with him, and unless you are gifted with remarkable intuitive insight you are not likely to know much about him unless you have seen him living and acting over a considerable period of time.
Aldous Huxley
#36. Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn't go to those classes in drama school. I was like, 'I don't need that; I'll never be dancing in anything.'
Richard Madden
#37. God has gifted me in communication. He has given me a gift to be very open about myself, which seems to really help a lot of people. It's not even anything I do on purpose. It's just something I don't have a problem with. I don't care what you know about me if it will help you.
Joyce Meyer
#38. You understand. I don't know. I am not sure how I would feel in your shoes. My mother wanted me.
Donna K. Childree
#39. Even the most gifted person needs someone to initiate him. The one that life puts in your path one day, that person must be loved and respected for ever, even if he's not responsible. That is my faith!
Albert Camus
#40. Spiritually speaking, here's an important analogy: we're not accountable for how our accomplishments measure up to the gifted person sitting next to us. However, we are accountable for what we do with what we've been given.
Susie Larson
#41. This is not the time to shrink back in fear. Move forward in faith. Get up every morning knowing you are gifted.
Joel Osteen
#42. It's alright, kiddo. I'll love you no matter how you are. No matter if you are gifted or not, your mother and I will love you all the way to the end of forever ...
Shannon A. Thompson
#43. She said that I was highly gifted.
Are people lowly gifted?
Or medium gifted?
Or just gifted? It's possible that all labels are curses. Unless they're on cleaning products.
In my opinion, it's not really a great idea to see people as just one thing.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#44. The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.
Henry Beston
#45. My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.
Caroline Rhea
#46. The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
Bill Vaughan
#47. It talked about the isolation felt by gifted young people whose social skills could not keep up with their intellects and who were often ostracized.
Dan Brown
#48. You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net.
Jennifer Beals
#49. The best among us are not more gifted than the rest. They just take small steps each day as they march towards their biggest life.
Robin S. Sharma
#50. 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
#51. Don't focus on it," she said. "Don't define yourself in terms of something which even many highly trained and gifted professionals do not fully understand.
Elyn R. Saks
#52. When his parents announced the newest rules to Jamal, he defiantly announced back to them that, as a matter of principle, he would not be "manipulated or forced into complying with a Fascist parenting style.
James T. Webb
#53. Many high-functioning multiples are gifted writers and artists, who, as they heal, are able to find an aesthetic outlet for the sealed-off rage and pain they have not allowed themselves to feel.
Marlene Steinberg
#54. Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world.
L.A. Reid
#55. We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.
Robert Genn
#56. Hypothesis: Intentional or not, movement to a beat = dancing.
Gordon Korman
#57. By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.
Thomas Starr King
#58. I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.
Albert Einstein
#59. 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
#60. Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.
Isaiah Berlin
#61. Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.
Seth
#62. You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was ... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world ... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.
Robin Gibb
#63. Life's Irony; It is not only the poor that needs gifts, the rich also love to be gifted.
Auliq Ice
#64. Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.
Vandana Shiva
#65. Anyone who enters into an intimate relationship with God can see God do exceptional things through his or her life. The outcome does not depend upon a person being unusually gifted, educated, or wealthy. The key is the indwelling presence of God doing unusual things
Henry T. Blackaby
#66. If a fourteen year-old can deliver your message, it's not because he's gifted. It's because intellectually, you're a child.
Bill Maher
#67. I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.
Louis Begley
#68. It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#69. The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.
Joel Henry Hildebrand
#70. The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.
Henry Ford
#71. 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
#72. I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.
Marianne Williamson
#73. We must be brought to a place where, naturally gifted though we may be, we dare not speak except in conscious and continual dependence on Him.
Watchman Nee
#74. I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.
Ben Saunders
#75. This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.
Martin Lewis Perl
#76. I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.
Jaime Escalante
#77. I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#78. Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.
Anthony Trollope
#79. These women are talented and gifted, fearless yet honoring, connected yet self-contained, present yet far reaching, compassionate yet fierce, pure but not naive, strong and gentle, simple yet highly strategic.
Lisa Bevere
#80. Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.
Criss Jami
#81. God can, has and will use anybody who is open to serving Him to convey the gospel. He will bless the efforts of His servants whether they are gifted as evangelizers or not.
George Barna
#82. I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.
Benjamin Carson
#83. 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.
#84. A gifted player, who is not a team player, will ultimately hurt the team.
John Wooden
#85. Why must I have the Piglet?' 'Because you are the best.' 'I do not understand.' 'Teach him.' 'And who teaches me?' ' As an officer, my lord, you will have many men under your command and not all will be gifted. You must learn to use each man to his best advantage ...
David Gemmell
#86. The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.
Robert Silverberg
#87. Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a new vision of reality, seeing the world through the eyes of faith, looking at the human condition through the eyes of Christ.
John Walford
#88. 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
#89. What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
Chuck Grassley
#90. 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
#91. Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Thomas A. Edison
#92. The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.
Robert B. Cialdini
#93. 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
#94. Permit no man to make a mockery of you just because you may not be proficient in something. Remember you are gifted no matter how insignificant it may be, it's your prized possession, value it
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#95. While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert ... that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
Jules Verne
#96. David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.
Alex Ferguson
#97. You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit.
Donna K. Childree
#98. There was a time when fame meant that you were either someone who is really gifted in your field or you were making an impact or you are famous because you were a really horrible person, you know? But now, you can become famous by eating a frog. It's just not the same thing.
Debbie Allen
#99. You have been gifted the Blood Diamond and are surrounded by all that is good. You will not fail as long as you believe." Analea
Kathy Cyr
#100. When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will not have to work hard and sweat it out
Sunday Adelaja
