Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.