{"quotes":[{"text":"He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["crazy-human","giftedness","mental-health","mental-illness"],"id":24402,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."},{"text":"It's your difference that sets you apart not your similarity, stand out!","author":"Bernard Kelvin Clive","tags":["branding","differences","giftedness","personal-branding","stand-out"],"id":29129,"author_id":"Bernard+Kelvin+Clive"},{"text":"Being gifted means facing the next level of depth without ever being repulsed by the curse that comes with the magic of being different.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["being-different","being-gifted","being-yourself","giftedness","inspirational","life","magic","purpose","self-love","uniqueness"],"id":46929,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"},{"text":"If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else’s shadow, they might wilt.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["cultivate","giftedness","gifts-and-talents","gifts","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","matshona-dhliwayo","shadow","skill","success","talent","talents-and-gifts","work","work","work"],"id":148829,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["champions","community","competition","giftedness","modern","printing-press","satellite","television","treasure"],"id":177822,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."},{"text":"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.","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["brain","brains","combination","gifted","giftedness","god","heart","intelligence","man","mankind","mind","purpose","woman","women"],"id":179140,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"},{"text":"Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.","author":"Sarah Weeks","tags":["baker","bakery","baking","cooking","food","gift","gifted","giftedness","kidlit","middle-grade","middlegrade","talent","talented-people"],"id":180085,"author_id":"Sarah+Weeks"},{"text":"To be envied for your giftedness is better than to be accepted for your untalentedness.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["creativity","excellence","genius","gift","giftedness","haters","life-lesson","life-lessons","originality","resentment","stand-out","stand-out-from-the-crowd","success","talent","uniqueness"],"id":229086,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in the eye of the beholder. To illustrate, let’s say that you are the only beholder, and your word is final. Would you be able to choose the 1000 most beautiful women in the country? And if that sounds impossible, consider this: Say you’re now looking at your picks. Could you compare them to each other and say which one is more beautiful? For example, who is more beautiful— Katie Holmes or Angelina Jolie? How about Angelina Jolie or Catherine Zeta-Jones? I think intelligence is like this. So many factors are involved that attempts to measure it are useless. Not that IQ tests are useless. Far from it. Good tests work: They measure a variety of mental abilities, and the best tests do it well. But they don’t measure intelligence itself.","author":"Marilyn Vos Savant","tags":["analytics","bias","brilliance","brilliant","genius","gifted","gifted-people","giftedness","inspirational","intelligence","iq","math","mathematics","mental","motivational","prejudice","psychology","science","statistics","test"],"id":310476,"author_id":"Marilyn+Vos+Savant"},{"text":"0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor riches, beauty nor strength, genius nor eloquence have any value in Your eyes, Lord, unless allied to grace. For the gifts of nature are common to good men and bad alike, but grace or love are Your especial gift to those whom You choose, and those who are sealed with this are counted worthy of life everlasting.","author":"Thomas à Kempis","tags":["excellence","giftedness","grace"],"id":362177,"author_id":"Thomas+%C3%A0+Kempis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}