Brevity Quote by Anton Chekhov Download Open image ““Brevity is the sister of talent.”” — Anton Chekhov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brevity Sister Sisters Talent Wit
“A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Do you still call it talent, if it blooms without any kind of nurturing? That's got to be something else. She made talent sound… — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
“Talent is often developed at the expense of character. The greater the talent, the more the mischief.” — Melissa McPhail Copy Share Image
“Talent is something rare and beautiful and precious, and it must not be allowed to go to waste.” — George Selden Copy Share Image
“Talent is any recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied.” — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
“Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but why lie to the people? Why assure the people they are right in their ignorance and that their crude prejudices are sacred truth? Can any splendid future possibly justify this basr lie? Were I a politician,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“At the water's edge, barrels of pitch blazed like huge bonfires. Their reflection, crimson as the rising moon, crept to meet us in long,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up, not into the ordinary chemical atoms, but into these primordial atoms, which we shall for brevity call corpuscles; and if these corpuscles are charged with electricity and projected from the cathode by the electric field, they… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into… — Walter Pater Copy Share
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
