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Mon 4 Oct 2021

Talent

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, talent, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred. No novel exists which an ordinary intelligence could not conceive; there is no sentence, no matter how lovely, that a beginner could not construct. What remains is to pick up the pen, to rule the paper, patiently to fill it up.”

—Jules Renard, Journal, 1887 (ed. & tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget)

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Fri 21 May 2021

Talent

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, talent
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Random quote of the day:

“Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.”

—Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

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Thu 22 Mar 2018

Butterfly

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, talent, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings.”

—Ernest Hemingway on F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Moveable Feast

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Thu 18 Aug 2016

Offering

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, spirituality, talent
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“The cleansing of spiritual contamination…is accomplished by offering one’s talent, resources, and life to the world.”

—Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching, 73 (tr. Brian Walker)

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Wed 17 Apr 2013

Hustle and flow

Posted by PJ under persistence, quote of the day, talent, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“In a creative writing class of twenty people anywhere in this country, six students will be startlingly talented. Two of those might actually publish something by and by. [What distinguishes those two from the rest is that] they will have something other than literature itself on their minds. They will probably be hustlers, too. I mean that they won’t want to wait passively for somebody to discover them. They will insist on being read.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, interview, The Paris Review, Issue 69, Spring 1977

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Wed 20 Mar 2013

Wo/Man up

Posted by PJ under character, quote of the day, talent
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“Talent develops in quiet,
Character in the torrent of the world.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso

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Tue 12 Mar 2013

Quit yer bawling

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“I bawled [my sister] out one time for not doing more with the talents she had. She replied that having talent doesn’t carry with it the obligation that something has to be done with it. This was startling news to me. I thought people were supposed to grab their talents and run as far and fast as they could.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, interview, The Paris Review, Issue 69, Spring 1977

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Fri 19 Oct 2012

The Talent Factor

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Random quote of the day:

 

“Being labeled talented only means we have survived being untalented.”

—Craig Tanner, “The Myth of Talent”

 

 

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Thu 12 Jan 2012

The art of being alone

Posted by PJ under actors and acting, alone, art, quote of the day, talent
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Random quote of the day:


“Goethe said, “Talent is developed in privacy,” you know?  And it’s really true.  There is a need for aloneness which I don’t think most people realize for an actor.  It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting.”

—Marilyn Monroe, interview, LIFE Magazine, Aug. 3, 1962
(on the stands the week she died)

 

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Thu 1 Sep 2011

Birding

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Random quote of the day:

 

“Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.”

—Anonymous, The Ladies Repository, September 1874

 

This quote has been widely misattributed to Henry Van Dyke (and sometimes to Thoreau).  In actual fact, the first known use of it was in The Ladies Repository: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted to Literature, Arts, and Religion, September 1874.  It was used without attribution.

 

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