Gifted Individuals Quotes

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

God gives different people different gifts, and there are some people that can listen to an instrument and within a fraction of a second tell, you know, where it's off key or what note doesn't resonate correctly.

Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.

The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

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.

Every human has a seed of greatness buried in a gift needed by the world.

The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings.

There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.

Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.

Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

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.

The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.

Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.

I see the creative accomplishments of which highly gifted humans are capable as special cases of the universal creative process, that game played by everyone against everyone else, from which wells up all that has never been before.

I rejoice when I meet gifted young people... I feel the future is in good hands.