Bearable Quote by Harold Bloom Download Open image “Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.” — Harold Bloom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bearable Failing Mediocrity Prodigies Want
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
It's easy to be a prodigy. It's really hard to keep pushing in new directions. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it. — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
A prodigy to me is someone that is enormously gifted at a young age - to the point that people can't deny it. I… — Jamal Crawford Copy Share Image
“Everyone loves a prodigy [...]. Prodigies get us off the hook for living ordinary lives. We can tell ourselves we're not special because we… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children.… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
“Prodigy" Huge, megalithic corporation seeks a talented, ambitious prodigy to join our exciting dynamic Prodigy Division for summer job. Requirements include at least fourteen… — John Green Copy Share Image
That word 'prodigy' has such a derogatory implication. It is used to describe people who are forced to play a lot of concerts very… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
How will it ever be bearable, Priestess?” His voice was rough. He sounded completely broken. “You’ll see her again. She’s with Nyx now. She’ll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
