Unrecognized Gifts Quotes

I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually she surfaced near Japan and people gave her gifts but she had been so long under the sea she did not recognize what they were. She is a sly one. Mostly at night we commune. Night. Harbinger of dream and nightmare and bearer of omens which defy the music of words. In the morning the fear of her going is very real and very alarming. It can make one tremble. Not that she cares. She is the muse. I am the messenger.

My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

I think everybody has talents that haven't been tapped into. They can go unnoticed your entire life.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Everybody agreed I had all this talent, but I didn't know what to make of it.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

If you sense there must be more, there is more.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.