"People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions with a very few subjects, which it is up to the writer to find."

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Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

Wilfrid Sheed

#People Quotes #Substance Quotes #Talent Quotes

“Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music.”
“When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

Source : "NPR Fires Juan Williams, Journalists React". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 22, 2010.
“Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”

Source : Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.”

Source : 'Plays' (1662) p. 525
“When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.”
“Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where ***** really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie?”

Source : Steven Kotler (2014). “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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