Quotes About Giftedness

#1. She has man's brain
a brain that a man should have were he much gifted
and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

Bram Stoker

#2. Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

Andy Stanley

#3. Spiritual giftedness does not guarantee that we hear from God rightly on every point.

Craig S. Keener

#4. It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.

Jules Verne

#5. Our abilities and giftedness does not end of this earth; we will continue to serve the Lord in agreement with our abilities on this earth.

Paul P. Enns

#6. Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

Robert Frost

#7. Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.

Ravi Zacharias

#8. For the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Plato

#9. There's another option. You can consider the reader, not as a helpless victim or a passive consumer, but as an active, intelligent, worthy collaborator. A colluder, a coillusionist.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

Parker J. Palmer

#12. Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

Lev Vygotsky

#13. It's no use just by shouting out that it is bad or it's good. If someone feels bad about something, they should go and support the reins themselves.

Mithun Chakraborty

#14. Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Charles R. Swindoll

#15. When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.

Kristin Armstrong

#16. Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

Elisha Cuthbert

#17. Maybe she doesn't want to understand things she doesn't think she can change anyway. Maybe sometimes you just have a couple of rotten choices. Like you can fail to comprehend the world you've got, or you can see it as this ugly, evil, dangerous place and not be able to do a damn thing about it.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#18. I can swallow an "F" on the science fair project if that happens. I'm proud of my machine and it's more important to me to show what I can do than to get a good grade for it.

Richard Roberts

#19. Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more.

David McCullough

#20. To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.

Uma Thurman

#21. People's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness.

John C. Maxwell

#22. Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.

Sarah Weeks

#23. Religious life has to become an expression of the gifts of the person. (You don't) simply throw away your personality, your giftedness and leave everything at the gate and go in and expect to find Jesus.

Dolores Hart

#24. Godliness before giftedness.

Lesley Ramsay

#25. One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.

Michele Bachmann

#26. It's your difference that sets you apart not your similarity, stand out!

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#27. The tricky part about discovering our giftedness is that it may be in an area that feels unexpected.

Meg Meeker

#28. How can I seek forgiveness for sins I haven't committed yet?

Nilesh Rathod

#29. It may almost always be said both of sects and of individuals, who derive their morality from religion, that the better logicians they are, the worse moralists.

John Stuart Mill

#30. Soon she noted that teachers in subjects besides gym didn't report her if she cut. They were happy not to have her there: her intelligence made her a problem. It demanded attention and rushed their lesson plans forward.

Alice Sebold

#31. Personal power is something that is not visible. We can see its effects, but we cannot see power itself. In the same way, we see the effects of wind, but we cannot actually see the wind.

Frederick Lenz

#32. Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.

Gerald Brooks

#33. Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement and who then make contributions to that field that are considered by peers to be both original and highly exemplary.

Dean Keith Simonton