Unrecognized Talents Quotes

It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many, a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

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

There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.

For so long, I looked at myself as literally a kid who was talented who would go up and down the pool. That's it. Nothing else. Very few people knew who I really was.

I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

I've had some interesting stuff happen to me - so why doesn't anyone ask me?

The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

I'm tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes... the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky.

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

No kid is unsmart. Every kid's a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it.

... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.

The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.

Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and they have to stop and think; there's just not that much left.

Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

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

I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for.

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

I'm not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.

I'm a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn't know why.