Quote by Leon Wieseltier Download Open image “Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.” — Leon Wieseltier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I believe in being diligent but also cut yourself some slack. It's okay in the grand scheme of life. — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary these obsessions. You conquer one but then you move onto another. — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
I am attracted to the ambiguous and abstract. I have an obsession with the oddly. I am fascinated by frivolousness. — Nathan Park Copy Share Image
What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
“The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful.… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered, — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy, — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
