#gifted

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#gifted #leaves #person #point #rest

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#eternal #expressive #gifted #heart #himself

There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#because #comics #drag #everything #gifted

Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#am #being #enough #fact #gifted

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#attitude #birth #criterion #edge #gifted

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#inheritance #our

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#gifted #instinct #passes #rich #self-preservation

Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds. ↗

— Eric Wilson

#feel #gifted #kids #like #lot

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. ↗

— James Wolcott

#back #children #considered #early #early age

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#ahead #am #analyzing #approve #because