#elle

People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#self-esteem #excellence

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#storyteller #writers

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. ↗

— Max Born

#distinguishes #even #impossible #intellect #possible

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated. ↗

— David Bowie

#christ #different #different way #each #explore

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#alone #any #arrive #cannot #dramatic

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#excellence #good #inspires #made #manly

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#age #comedian #i #intellectually #just

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#factual #forth #hard #indisputable #information

I'm a fake intellectual. ↗

— Adam Brody

#i #intellectual

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#abstract #i #i think #intellectual #leader