Diverse Abilities Quotes

I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.

A truly great artist has many talents.

By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.

When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.

I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

I'm not a one-trick horse.

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.

I grew up with a lot of friends that had a lot of abilities to do a lot of different things and chose different routes and it wasn't a great outcome for them.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.

To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

I have so many other talents other than fighting, and I would love to be able to show those off. I would like to say, 'Yes, I'm a fighter, and I'm this,' or, 'Yes I'm a fighter, but I'm also this.'

Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.

I think it's great that these little various skills I have seem to add up to something, because I'm not the greatest pianist or the greatest vocalist or the greatest actor.

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

Just because someone raps, doesn't mean that's all they can do. A lot of people are multi-talented.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

I've always been a player that could do a lot of different things.

People sometimes think that if someone plays basketball, they have to do that one thing they're great at. But I like being able to show that you can do more than one thing and do it at a high level.

Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you’re a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.