“Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it’s in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.”

— Adam Gopnik

How to Raise a Prodigy, The New Yorker (2018)

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American journalist 1956

John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar

Book I, epistle xvii, p. 138
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Epistles

“Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.”

William McKinley (1843–1901) American politician, 25th president of the United States (in office from 1897 to 1901)

First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1897).
1890s

“High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes.”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“His highs are achieved without drugs - they are born of a serious lust for life.”

Pieter-Dirk Uys (1945) South African comedian

Jani Allan, "I'm just the dumb blonde with the jewellery", Sunday Times (1980), republished in Face Value by Jani Allan.

“We are unwilling to let this cabal of radicals pull the rug of freedom out from under us in our lifetime. Now we have this glorious opportunity called November.”

Michele Bachmann (1956) American politician

Frederick County Republican Central Committee's Lincoln-Reagan Dinner, 2010-04-25

2010s

“But while in these first years the prospects of success are apt to seem remote and high hopes seem doomed to frustration, the worst thing to do is to eat one's heart out in idleness. There are many occupations which can be devised to improve one's fitness to profit by the chance when it does come.”

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan (1873–1952) British judge

Source: A Man of Law's Tale (1952), At the Scottish bar, p. 39

“A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.”

Marvin Bower (1903–2003) American business theorist

Source: The Will to Manage (1966), p. 25

“Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.”

Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) Italian composer

“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

“There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.”

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960) Former Prime Minister of Spain

Dinner speech at which Zapatero was the guest of honour, hosted by Felipe Calderón in the National Palace, Mexico City.
As President, 2007
Source: Transcripción oficial en la web de la Presidencia de México http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/prensa/discursos/?contenido=31030

“Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it’s in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.”

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