Gift Quotes
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The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
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It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.
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When I'm writing songs, some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.
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People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.
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Words are so important to us, so vital to our beings, that we sometimes take this gift of ours for granted. We shouldn’t—words are too powerful to take for granted.
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That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'
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The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.
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If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.
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God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
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Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
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I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note.
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When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.
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I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.
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The greatest gift I've ever received is being a teacher.
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Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.
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Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan or yield my agency to him-without compulsion or pressure, without any duress, as a single individual alone, by myself, no counterfeiting, nothing expected other than the privilege. In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one's agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, "I will do as you direct," is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
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I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.
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That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.
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I think it was a gift. I am very pleased.
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I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
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Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
