Gifted Quotes

“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“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, Dracula

“So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so forth. However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents—being an excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit from.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“There are times when the unseen can be even more dangerous than what our eyes behold.”
― Erin Forbes, The Elementals

“We are treasure chests with more jewels inside than we can imagine.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“So, what can I do?” I asked.

“Annoy?”

I gave him a hurt look.

Justus pulled the tip of his hoodie over his eye and lowered his voice. “It remains to be seen; sometimes it takes years to uncover abilities.”

“Maybe I can’t do anything.”

His blue eyes flashed up to mine. “Learner, we are all gifted.”
― Dannika Dark, Sterling

“He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.”
― John Irving, In One Person

“Upon the gifted among the misfits lies the burden of building new worlds.”
― M. Mead

“There is one kind of charity common enough among us… It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being… [However] what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.”
― Jamsetji Tata

“For most of her life, one man had told her that she was useless and incapable. That nothing she did was worthy of his approval.
The golden cup told a different story.
It said that a king disagreed with her father's assessment. The ruler of two-thirds of the known world thought her gifted. Worthy of his special favor.
Now she had to decide whose voice she would listen to. Whose voice shaped her world.
Against every expectation, she had not landed in a pit. Somehow, God had turned the threads of her failure into a precious moment of redemption.
She did not want to waste this grace.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Queen's Cook

“You're beginning a whole new life ... and for your own good and for the good of your future employers, it is better that you leave your old attachments behind. The more completely you make this transition, the better. ‘To serve and gladly’ is our motto, and the very essence of our activity. This should be your only concern from now on. It is a great honour to be called to enter the ranks of the Ancient and Noble Order of the Mugwash, and vitally important that you understand, appreciate and above all wholeheartedly embrace this ethos; and develop and nourish the precious Gift that makes all this possible. Don't let us down.”
― Etienne de L'Amour, The Gift

“Call it magic, call it a deep connection to the earth. It can be labeled many things, but the fact is that every woman in the Stevens line has had some special ability. Your great-grandmother, my grandma Emma, could bake pies that inspired people to tell the truth. One bite of her apple streusel crumb pie and a man would confess to an affair. A forkful of her peach cobbler and feuding siblings would apologize for their mistakes and make up. I'm told her cherry pie was especially popular for making shy beaus finally declare their true love and propose to their sweethearts.”
― Rachel Linden, Recipe for a Charmed Life

“If you have “the Gift”, whatever you do, keep the secret to yourself.”
― Etienne de L'Amour, The Gift

“There is a thin line between being a creative and being crazy. Many creatives ended up in the psych ward or heavily medicated... They only needed one person to believe in their visions.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Maybe the greatest gift that we could give ourselves is to rid ourselves of all of the things that we have gifted ourselves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Star reached up and snapped an apple twig from the bough above them. It was laden with small white buds not yet blossomed. "Watch." She cupped it in her strong-knuckled hands. Before Georgia's eyes, the buds began to slowly open, their blooms unfurling into delicate white starbursts. Soon Star was holding a branch laden with fragrant white blossoms in full bloom where a few seconds before there had been only tightly closed flowers.”
― Rachel Linden, Recipe for a Charmed Life

“Miracle and Migraine (Sonnet 1370)

Words are my leisure,
Words are my life.
Words are my gift to thee,
Use 'em wisely for light.

Kind words cost us nothing,
Cruel words will cost us all.
Faith in people costs us nothing,
Systemic mistrust will end us all.

It is common knowledge in the circle,
I don't control words, I get visions.
However, every miracle takes its toll,
Hence, the migraines are getting worse.

I don't mind, so long as I am ointment.
You keep the magic, I'll keep the pain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Words are my leisure,
Words are my life.
Words are my gift to thee,
Use 'em wisely for light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“A lot of the pride I felt was overshadowed by guilt, and I’ve since poured over so many studies about how gifted programs mainly benefit white and wealthy students— not because they’re smarter, just because the whole goddamn system is rigged to their benefit.”
― Elise Bryant

“Anybody can be gifted because anybody can be a gift to others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“True artists do not create to fish for compliments and praises. They create to express the love they have for their craft.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“Many with the potential lack the resources. And the ones with the resources often do not even realize they have a potential.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“I obliterate myself pouring out life, beyond all known limits of literature, only to be blamed for my himalayan immensity, by the religious of hate and nationals of bigotry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The greatest gift is understanding that everything is a gift.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“El desafío nunca fue entender el mundo, sino encontrar un lugar donde mi forma de entenderlo no sea un problema.”
― Vanesa S. Reyes

“I don't know how to write (Sonnet 1934)

The world deems me a poet, and I've
accepted the honor in grace and kind.
But the fact of the matter is that,
I literally don't know how to write.

Whatever I produce, write themselves,
I just lend my fingers to the keyboard.
Nothing supernatural, just my subconscious
does the writing, I sit back and let it flow.

The ancients called it autowriting,
kind of divine intervention in human life.
Had it not been for my childhood passion
for science, I too would've fallen to lies.

Thus I trust the divine writer within,
without coddling a superstitious narrative.
As a teen I often had visions of statements,
now it has exploded into everyday habit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“The world deems me a poet, but I don't know how to write. Whatever I produce, write themselves, as a teen I often had visions of statements, now it has exploded into everyday habit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood