David Shenk Quotes

Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.

David Shenk

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• I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Doing
  • Process
  • Editing

• The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Process
  • United States
  • Oil

• I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Up
  • Day
  • Fashion

• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Cooking

• I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Process

• My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Education
  • Process

• I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Process
  • Plan
  • Medicine

• If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Succeed
  • Possibilities
  • Proof

• When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Good
  • Story
  • Process

• It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Pretty
  • Baby
  • Process

• I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Process

• There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Never
  • Process
  • Bills

• I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Running
  • Thought
  • Process

• Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Process

• Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Reality
  • Band
  • Ideas

• One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.

  

  La Monte Young
  • Time
  • Stand
  • Rather

• Must say though, I'm rather chuffed to have been called a 'luvvie'.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Say
  • Rather
  • Though

• My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.

  

  Mike McCue
  • Parent
  • Entrepreneur
  • Upstate

• I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Never
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• It amuses me when I'm described as 'chic.'

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Me
  • Described
  • Chic

• Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.

  

  David Shenk
  • Process
  • Proof
  • Developed