Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
Quote by J. K. Rowling
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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J. K. Rowling Quotes
- Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
- You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
- It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
- Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
- I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
- If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.
- The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
- I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?
- Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
- The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
Best Quotes
- In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
- I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
- Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
- As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
- Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
- My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
- A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
- I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
- God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.