"I watch people get older and lose their……" — Bryce Courtenay
"I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given."
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43 Quotes by Bryce Courtenay
Bryce Courtenay has 43 quotes on this site.
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If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind.…
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Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.
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It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives,…
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Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged…
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. . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon…
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People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.
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Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that…
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Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the…
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It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if…
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sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
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First with the head, then with the heart.
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Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite…
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More Acuity Quotes
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Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what…
— David Whyte
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Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound…
— Unknown Author
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Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.
— Paul Lockhart
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People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has…
— Kenny Smith
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Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From…
— Anatoli Boukreev
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To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said…
— Joel Salatin
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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.
— Haruki Murakami
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To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It…
— Walter Kirn
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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A…
— Hemantsmarty
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