Quotes About Gifted Children

#1. Gifted children and child prodigies seem most likely to emerge in highly supportive family conditions.In contrast, geniuses have a perverse tendency of growing up in more adverse conditions.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Thomas A. Bailey

#3. All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.

Octavia Butler

#4. Most of our children are not prodigies, or even particularly gifted in any one field, but they all have the potential to shine as individuals in some way if given the right conditions.

Barbara Lourie Sand

#5. A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.

Richard Branson

#6. What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

Malcolm Gladwell

#7. Notice what's comfortable and what's uncomfortable.

Jack Kornfield

#8. There are times when I feel lazy and just want to stay in bed all day, but I know that working out is the best way to get those endorphins going, which will make me feel better emotionally and physically.

Heather Locklear

#9. We are constantly trying to be noticed that we don't notice other people.

Teal V

#10. Sheltering the women and the children played some part; Troy was sure of that. The women and children of Silo One had been gifted with a long sleep while the men stayed and took shifts. It removed the passion from the plans, forestalled the chance that the men might fight among themselves.

Hugh Howey

#11. 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

#12. Homosexuality is God's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.

Samuel Austin Allibone

#13. I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.

Bill Watterson

#14. Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them become ordinary people. There, I said it. The worst thing a 21st-century child of interesting parents could be: ordinary. Like us.

Heather Choate Davis

#15. I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.

Ransom Riggs

#16. The world isn't evil, even if there are bad things in it.

Karen Lynch

#17. High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

James Wolcott

#18. The Zankli Sacred Prayer: Oh God, I bring before you your children you have gifted with the light. Bring unto them what is yours to give, your to provide, and yours to understand. Bless them with the joy of goodness, and deliver unto them longevity, wisdom and foresight.

M.J. Duff

#19. A great thought is no different than an old-time steam locomotive. When it is heard from far away, everyone knows that something spectacular is coming!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. 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

#21. When the children reached school age, 21 percent scored 130 or more points on a standard IQ test, a level considered gifted. If their mothers had no morning sickness, only 7 percent of kids did that well.

John Medina

#22. To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

Hanna Rosin

#23. I and my pupil dined

Charlotte Bronte

#24. What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.

Maggie Q

#25. When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

Patricia Richardson

#26. The next parent who Googles Is my 2-year-old gifted? should get a curt response: Your 2-year-old is a gift.

Ron Fournier

#27. Every child is a gifted child,

Toru Kumon

#28. I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

Bob Lilly

#29. 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

#30. I can feel myself dying inside.

Trey Parker

#31. I tell it stories now and then
and feed it images like honey.
I will not speculate today
with poems that think they're money.

Anne Sexton

#32. 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

#33. Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

Thomas Carlyle

#34. Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.

Adele Devine

#35. The more I see the world, most dislike, and the time confirms my belief in the inconsistency of human nature and how little can one trust the appearances of goodness or intelligence

Jane Austen

#36. 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