"Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius."

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Source : "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

Darold Treffert

#Skills Quotes #Genius Quotes #Savants Quotes

“It is alright to trust. But trust comes with responsibility.”
“Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.”
“I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.”
“The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment for them to exercise their rights and make choices in their lives is crucial. It is at the heart of human development!”
“I'm not one of those actors that goes to watch the playback, after every take. I really don't like it, and I don't want to see it.”

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“You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.”
“Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.”

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