Untalented Quotes - Page 2

• The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

  Eric Hoffer

  Engineering, Important, Problem

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.

  Dorothy Cannell

  Children, Rain, Piano

  Dorothy Cannell (2013). “God Save the Queen!”, p.13, Belgrave House

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• I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more often, completely untalented. I certainly did not like to practice, and the teacher who hit me, and the view of the park, did not help to improve my attitude.

  Georg Solti

  Teacher, Children, Attitude

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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