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Kätzchen · 09-10-2010, 01:47 PM

Excerpts from the chapter, I found interesting
(the first sub-section titled, The Phenomenon of the Prodigy):

"The term prodigiousness connotes a gift that borders on the miraculous" (p. 138)

"Without addressing the gender differences of prodigousness, I believe that a significant genetic or neuro-biological component exists in the prodigy: something in the structure or functioning of the nervous system of Mozart, of the chess player Bobby Fischer, or of the mathematician Carl Gauss that made it preternaturally easy to gain initial mastery of patterns involved in musical tones, the configuration of chess pieces, or the possibilities of numerical combinations, respectively" (p. 138-139).

"In terms of multiple intelligences theory, Picasso's precocity was most striking in the visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, and interpersonal areas. Such gifts are what one would expect in a visual artist, but artists differ from one another in whether their strengths are more pronounced motorically, visually, spatially, or with respect to the world of human beings. Part of Picasso's prodigiousness stems from the fact that he was gifted across the range of relevant skills and could draw on them synergystically" (p. 140).

"It has been said that Picasso never mastered certain scholastic skills and had trouble with abstract thinking (Picasso was terribly distressed with the disparity between his artistic skills and his scholastic acumen)" (p. 141).

Gardner, Howard. (1993). Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Ghandi. New York, NY: Harper-Collins Publishers.

purepisces · 09-10-2010, 02:20 PM

“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.” ~ Lao-tzu quotes

purepisces · 09-10-2010, 02:34 PM

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about. ~Sam Ewing

purepisces · 09-10-2010, 02:40 PM

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. ~ Stephen Hawking

purepisces · 09-10-2010, 02:48 PM

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. ~ T.S. Eliot quotes

Hack · 09-10-2010, 07:00 PM

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. — Robert A. Heinlein

JakeTulane · 09-11-2010, 05:22 AM

"There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are." - Frederick Collins

JakeTulane · 09-11-2010, 05:25 AM

"There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults." - Francois De LaRochefoucauld

JakeTulane · 09-11-2010, 05:31 AM

"It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life." -"Sister" Elizabeth Kenny

jenny · 09-11-2010, 05:53 AM

"Change the fabric of your own soul
and your own visions, and you change all."
~Vachel Lindsay

BestButchBoy · 09-11-2010, 06:16 AM

“Don’t pay attention to the critics—don’t even ignore them.
~SAMUEL GOLDWYN

Jet · 09-11-2010, 10:11 PM

I don't fear the devil, I fear people who fear the devil. —St Theresa of Avila

Lord, give me chastity, but not yet. —St. Augustine

When divine intervention knocked St. Theresa of Avila off her cart and into the mud she replied, "Lord, with the way you treat people, it's no wonder you haven't any friends."

When St. Aloysius, who loved to play pool, was asked what he would do if he knew he were to die tomorrow, he replied, "I'd finish my game."

jenny · 09-12-2010, 06:09 AM

"One day he decided he was more dependent on the kindness of women than he liked so he went off to hunt wild beasts with his bare hands. But all he found was a stray dog & a couple of old pigeons & it was cold & he missed the sound of soft voices, so finally he came back & never worried about it again." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

jenny · 09-13-2010, 05:46 AM

"If it is to be, it's up to me." ~ Don Maynard

NJFemmie · 09-13-2010, 06:27 AM

Stealing someone's thunder might leave you with a storm you can't handle. -- me

jenny · 09-13-2010, 06:48 AM

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." ~ Plato

Janstevie · 09-13-2010, 08:26 AM

Some days your the dog, some days your the lamp post.

JakeTulane · 09-13-2010, 08:35 AM

"Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness." - Author Unknown

JakeTulane · 09-13-2010, 08:36 AM

"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date." - Dale Carnegie

JakeTulane · 09-13-2010, 08:37 AM

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice." - Ben Johnson

09-10-2010, 01:47 PM	#3941
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, please. Join Date: May 2010 Location: Near beautiful rivers and snow capped volcanoes Posts: 16,022 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,166 Thanked 33,489 Times in 10,624 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	(Ch. 5) Pablo Picasso: Prodigiousness & Beyond Excerpts from the chapter, I found interesting (the first sub-section titled, The Phenomenon of the Prodigy): "The term prodigiousness connotes a gift that borders on the miraculous" (p. 138) "Without addressing the gender differences of prodigousness, I believe that a significant genetic or neuro-biological component exists in the prodigy: something in the structure or functioning of the nervous system of Mozart, of the chess player Bobby Fischer, or of the mathematician Carl Gauss that made it preternaturally easy to gain initial mastery of patterns involved in musical tones, the configuration of chess pieces, or the possibilities of numerical combinations, respectively" (p. 138-139). "In terms of multiple intelligences theory, Picasso's precocity was most striking in the visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, and interpersonal areas. Such gifts are what one would expect in a visual artist, but artists differ from one another in whether their strengths are more pronounced motorically, visually, spatially, or with respect to the world of human beings. Part of Picasso's prodigiousness stems from the fact that he was gifted across the range of relevant skills and could draw on them synergystically" (p. 140). "It has been said that Picasso never mastered certain scholastic skills and had trouble with abstract thinking (Picasso was terribly distressed with the disparity between his artistic skills and his scholastic acumen)" (p. 141). Gardner, Howard. (1993). Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Ghandi. New York, NY: Harper-Collins Publishers.

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