Kuo Tai-chun, a professor at Tamkang University, uses this sentence to describe her painting instructor Wang Shou-hsiun. A child prodigy who enjoyed early fame, Wang nevertheless has not had an easy ride in life.
淡江大學副教授郭岱君也借用這句話形容她的國畫老師王壽，一位早年即頗負盛名的的天才型畫家，卻一生坎坷。