"Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment."

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Source : Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.349, Penguin

Gail Sheehy

#Suffering Quotes #Talent Quotes #Natural Quotes

“The first key to leadership is self-control.”
“Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.”
“In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.”
“I'm from the 'less is more' school. I had to be in the 'more is more' zone with 'Dallas Buyers Club', so I was out of my comfort zone, but I had to trust that.”
“When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable because you remember every picture, every wall and every juxtaposition.”

Source : Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press
“You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to. What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you're good, they bring you into their office and they say, "Boy, that spec was really good - we'll never make that in a million years. We have rights to the board game of Monopoly. What do you think about a Monopoly movie?".”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.”
“You're supposed to take a second if life is going well, to enjoy it and not just move on with the rest of your day worrying about the next thing. And it's a really trite point in some ways. But it's bizarre how little I had done it at various points in my life.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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