I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.
Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.
If you keep your perspective correct and understand that people are coming to you because your gift makes room for you in the world, then you do not need to wonder or worry about having to misplace your importance as a person.
When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
Instead of labeling and discriminating against one or the other, we need to learn to blend our gifts and complement our geniuses.
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.
If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.
We are born into a particular place and time with a particular set of gifts and limitations. The challenge isn't to pluck the best career out of the air, but to learn yourself from the inside out: to know your gifts and accept your limitations and shape your life accordingly.
I don't think I can do anything. I mean, I felt I had been given a bit of a gift and a key to a kind of a future. But I've always felt there is more that I can learn and that there are many people who are as good as, or better at, what I do than I am.
Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.
You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
My mother's genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.
