quotes about Giftedness

last updated: November 28, 2023

When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.
-- Kristin Armstrong

Source : Kristin Armstrong (2011). “Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run”, p.81, Rodale

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Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.
-- Gerald Brooks

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“Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.”
“You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.”
“It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.”
“Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.”
“Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.”
“I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.”
“Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.”
“This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government as a biased protagonist, armed with the awesome authority of the Federal Government, in addition to rulemaking and umpire powers. The broad grants of power to the Attorney General to initiate and intervene in civil actions would go far toward transforming him into George Orwell's 'Big Brother' of '1984,' in the year 1964.”
“The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.”
“When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.”

Source : "And Nothing Shall Offend Them" by David A. Bednar, www.lds.org. October 2006.