"There are some bad qualities which make great talents."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Quality Quotes #Talent Quotes

“The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.”
“I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.”
“I leave before being left. I decide.”
“In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.”

Source : "Female Heads of State" by Lynn Harris, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.
“I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.”
“The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.”

Source : "FILM; Eric Rohmer Writes His Own 'Winter's Tale'" by John Rockwell, www.nytimes.com. March 27, 1994.
“I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids.”
“It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.”

Source : Isaac Watts (1812). “The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes”, p.517

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