“Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are formed by the circumstances acting upon them since birth. These circumstances include the ambiance created by the other, lesser artists of their own time, who have all done their part in creating the pressure that forces up an exceptional talent. Unjustly, but unavoidably, the very closeness of a great artist to his colleagues and contemporaries leads to their eclipse.” DoneArtistForceActingTalentProductsBirthCircumstancesCreatingSpringPressureColleaguesGreat ArtExceptionalGreat ArtistClosenessEclipseAmbiance Book:The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work Source: The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work
“[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate "culture" with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.” PeopleMatterDoneCultureIndividualPracticeTalentSkillsUniqueManagementCorporateProgrammingInitiativeHostileExceptionalOutletsCorporate CultureSubmergedUnique Talents Author:Bjarne Stroustrup
“Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.” ArtRealityArtistChoicesLiteratureSocialWealthDealsConditionsTalentPositionPagesOrdinaryPsychologicalRealismExceptionalImaginativeFreedom Of Choice Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“He is an exceptional talent. I still think Diego Maradona is the best player I have ever seen but Messi is closing in fast. He's a wonderful sight in full flight and we are lucky to have him around.” ThinkingStillsPlayerWonderfulTalentLuckySightFlightExceptionalClosingBest PlayersMessiMaradona Author:Ander Herrera
“I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.” DoeHardSchoolTalentPraiseRegardBlameNormExceptionalIndulgenceObeyingGood SchoolProper Time Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.” KnowsFeelsChildrenYoungDesireDealsTalkingKnow HowEnvironmentTeacherTalentStudentsSafeEducationalSuperiorsDullConventionalCommitteesThreatenedSensitivityBureaucracyExceptionalEmergingSafe Environment Author:Frank Herbert
“I've had the opportunity to work on a number of just amazing, exceptional motion pictures. I've had the opportunity to work with some of the finest talent in the business. All this because I was at the right place at the right time.” OpportunityNumbersTalentFinestRight TimeExceptionalRight PlaceMotion Pictures Author:Floyd Norman
“I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.” ThinkingStatesShowsTalentExceptional Author:Jamie Farr
“Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.” LittlesEndsBigsCreativityTalentExtraordinaryIrrelevantExceptional Author:Ernie J Zelinski