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
- Death is just life's next big adventure.
- It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
- Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
- His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
- Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
- Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
Best Quotes
- I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
- Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
- I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
- If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
- Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
- It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.
- Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature.
- Choice of words can be as revealing as a set of fingerprints.
- We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.