poetic language

"For Kristeva, the semiotic expresses that original libidinal multiplicity within the very terms of culture, more precisely, within poetic language in which multiple meanings and semantic non-closure prevail. In effect, poetic language is the recovery of the maternal body within the terms of language, one that has the potential to disrupt, subvert, and displace the paternal law."
p. 102

" ... Kristeva describes the maternal body as bearing a set of meanings that are prior to culture itself."
p. 103 

"... this libidinal source of subversion cannot be maintained within the terms of culture, ... its sustained presence within culture leads to psychosis and to the breakdown of cultural life itself ... "
p. 103

from Gender Trouble, Judith Butler 1999, Routledge  NY.

'Down Underworld'

"One of the miracles of good writing is that it can take something a reader would just as soon steer clear of in real life, and transform it into something he can attend to with sympathetic, even affectionate, interest."

p. 132 The Atlantic, October 2011
B. R. Myers

Practice makes perfect?

"We instinctively think of talent as something you're born with, as a gift, some divine spark that you have in your genes but that's not how the talent hotbeds treat it, they treat it as an act of construction."

"It flows from the scientific finding that when you operate from the edge of your ability, on the very uncomfortable razor edge of your ability your learning goes up and it doesn't go up just a little it increases quite a lot."

"... whatever task you're trying to do, reaching, failing and reaching again."

"We normally think of that sort of a struggle as being unproductive, we normally think of it as being a verdict on our ability, we can't do it ..." 
 

"There's a lot of fascinating science out there that shows how when you affect someone's identity, when the action of their sport, or their passion or their art becomes linked to their identity you can tap into all kinds of energy that they can put into practice, that they can put into building that skill."

ABC Radio National
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/practice-makes-perfect/3611212

Daniel Coyle, 2009, The Talent Code,  Arrow Books
http://thetalentcode.com/author/