"Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we havenâ€™t yet developed."

-- David Shenk

#Skills Quotes #Limits Quotes #Talent Quotes

“No new reader, however charitable, could open â€œFifty Shades of Grey,â€ browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.”

Source : "No Pain, No Gain" by Anthony Lane, www.newyorker.com. February 23 & March 2, 2015.
“Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.”
“We perform the show for the people that are in the room and then that performance is theirs forever and ever.”

Source : Interview with Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. June 16, 2014.
“Promise you'll think of me every second?”
“I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.”
“I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.”
“Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.”
“Some things can't be changed. They'll always happen the way they were supposed to.”

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