Dilettantes Quote by Aleksandar Hemon Download Open image “I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.” — Aleksandar Hemon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dilettantes Expectations Temperament
I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
There is no one with higher expectations of me than myself. I cannot control other's expectations. — Kasper Schmeichel Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix. — Pawel Pawlikowski Copy Share Image
I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I've become really strict in a lot of ways, but I'm also very lenient. I'm kind to myself. — Sue Bird Copy Share Image
I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you're not,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters in the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and then wanting… — Nancy Johnson Copy Share Image
In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin. — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of… — Miranda Richardson Copy Share Image
I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera.… — Weegee Copy Share Image
As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I can't do the movies like I do painting because I am really more of a sort of dilettante or something. I mean I… — Red Grooms Copy Share Image
