Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: “the gift of seeing what others have not seen”.
― Tolstoy
Tolstoy’s quote: “Talent is the capacity…
Quotes
Call me by your name quote : “The meaning of the river flowing is not…
“The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing, so that we cannot encounter them twice, but that some things stay the same only by changing.”
…heard in Call me by your Name
Chekhov quote : “Everybody has some passions…
“Everybody has some passions, nobody has the strength”.
A. Chekhov, Platonov
Paul Valéry quote : “Proportion must act…
La proportion doit agir sans se montrer.
Proportion must act without showing up.
Paul Valéry
Proust quote : “Time, in order to become visible, seeks bodies…
“Le Temps qui d’habitude n’est pas visible, qui pour le devenir cherche des corps et, partout où il les rencontre, s’en empare pour montrer sur eux sa lanterne magique”.
Time, in order to become visible, “seeks bodies and everywhere encounters them, seizes them to cast its magic lantern upon them”.
Marcel Proust, quoted by Gilles Deleuze in “Proust and Signes”
Deleuze quote : “The world vacillates…
“Le monde vacille dans le courant de l’apprentissage”.
The world vacillates in the course of apprenticeship
Gilles Deleuze
Rilke Quote : “Be patient toward all that is unsolved…
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.“
R. M. Rilke
Einstein quote “Everyone is a…
Proust’s quote : “When life walls us in…
“When life walls us in, our intelligence cuts an opening”
“Là où la vie emmure, l’intelligence perce une issue”
Marcel Proust
Basho quote : “No one will know my…
“No one will know my secret, nor even if I have one”
Basho
Teresa of Avila quote : “There are more tears shed…
“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers”
Tereza of Avila
“The rain it raineth on the just…
The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust hath the just’s umbrella.
Charles Bowen
R. Maria Rilke quote : “Be patient toward…
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
N. N. Taleb quote : “Bureaucracy is a…
“Bureaucracy is a construction designed to maximize the distance between a decision-maker and the risks of the decision”.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nietzsche quote : “We have art…
We have art in order not to die from the truth.
Nietzsche
Bertrand Russell’s Quote : “One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown…
“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important”
Bertrand Russell
“L’un des symptômes d’une proche dépression nerveuse est de croire que le travail que l’on fait est terriblement important”
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Emile Zola quote : “What I seek before all else in a painting…
“What I seek before all else in a painting is a man, not a painting.”
Emile Zola
“Ce que je cherche avant tout dans un tableau, c’est un homme et non pas un tableau”.
Manet : “Moonlight Over Boulogne Harbor”
Paths & Place
This is a Google Translation. Sorry.
“If only you had been taught, rather, to be happy by staying still. All these stories about your own path. Find your way. Follow your path. While it could be that we are made to live on a square, or in a public garden, there without moving, to make life go, it could be that we are a crossroads, the world needs us to stay there without moving, it would be a disaster if we went, at a given moment, to follow our road, but which road? The others are roads, I am a place, I do not lead to any place, I am a place.
Alessandro Baricco
“The promise of the caterpillar does not bind the butterfly” – A. Gide
“La promesse de la chenille n’engage pas le papillon”
“The promise of the caterpillar does not bind the butterfly”
André Gide
“A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun” – P. Valéry
“A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun”.
Paul Valéry
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