As quoted in What Is the Sangha?: The Nature of Spritual Community (2001) by Sangharakshita, p. 136.
“(James) Anderson has a gift from the gods: he could swing an orange.”
Geoff Boycott (1940) cricket player of England
The Guardian, 2008 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/2302798/Job-well-done-England-against-New-Zealand.-But-the-really-hard-work-starts-now.html
Andrey Voznesensky (1933–2010) Soviet poet
Olga Carlisle in The New York Times, September 11, 1966.
Criticism
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
Timothy Dalton (1944) British actor of stage, film and television
On The Living Daylights, reported in Edward Gross, His Name was Bond, James Bond: Timothy Dalton on the World of 007 http://web.archive.org/20000304095759/www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Film/7518/Bond_Eng/Bond_Eng.htm.
“Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
“Genius is 'the inspired gift of God.”
Thomas Carlyle book Past and Present
It is the clearer presence of God Most High in a man. Dim, potential in all men; in this man it has become clear, actual.
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
“Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
““Genius such as yours is a genetic gift.”
“So I have heard from my parents.””
Norman Spinrad book The Void Captain's Tale
Source: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 7 (p. 83)
