#exhibit

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for. ↗

— Carl Hubbell

#affairs #all-star #being #exhibition #few

...simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.... A moderately gifted person has to keep his or her gifts all bottled up until, in a manner of speaking, he or she gets drunk at a wedding and tap-dances on the coffee table like Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers. We have a name for him or her. We call him or her an "exhibitionist." How do we reward such an exhibitionist? We say to him or her the next morning, "Wow! Were you ever drunk last night! ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#giftedness #mediocrity #communication

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#better #compete #competitions #could #exhibitions

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness. ↗

— Iain Banks

#argue #consciousness #could #exhibit #find

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#church #education #eminent #exhibition #gallery

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#find #fortune #inequality #man #perhaps

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#conformity #difference #ease #endeavoured #especially

I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#decided #exhibition #i #major #only

I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#art student #because #being #chicago #exhibition

You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy. ↗

— Alva Noto

#because #big #cannot #consume #energy