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Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential
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“Just seems more complicated than other people. This complex human being may be at once "more naive and more knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. He or she is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier, and yet adamantly saner than the average person.”
― Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential
― Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential
“When my mathematician husband is bored at parties, he sits quietly in a corner and does equations in his head. Only I know that he is no longer in the room. I can tell by his eyes and the contented look on his face.”
― Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential
― Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential
“Each of these people has had to deal with illness, death, loneliness, broken marriages, and unrealized dreams. For the most part, they have accepted physical aging gracefully, and each has some way of keeping fit. What they have not accepted is the myth that learning and growing become less possible as one ages.”
― Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential
― Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential
“In Developing Superior Work Teams, Dennis Kinlaw writes, "Two realities are shaping organizational life in America today. The first reality is that all organizations are faced with the same challenge: they will either produce consistently superior services and products, or they will soon not be producing much at all. The second reality is that superior teamwork and developing superior work teams have been demonstrated to be the only consistent method for producing superior goods and services.”
― Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential
― Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential
