Leon Edel Quotes

The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.

Leon Edel

• Life
• Secret
• Talent
• Achievement
• Gossip
• Biography

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • Important
  • Night

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• There is no bore like a clever bore.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Clever
  • Bore

• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Courtesy
  • Defence

• When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Live
  • War
  • Together

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Me
  • Choose
  • Settings

• But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Why
  • Influence

• Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Life
  • Own
  • Privacy

• There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • You
  • Energy
  • Urban

• I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Same
  • Strength

• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Eating

• People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Grandparents
  • Ashamed
  • Slaves

• I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Me
  • Always
  • Spirit

• The waves are subtle, altering spacetime and the distance between objects as far apart as the Earth and the Moon by much less than the width of an atom. As such, gravitational radiation has not been directly detected yet. We hope to change that soon.

  

  Barry Barish
  • Hope
  • Earth
  • Moon

• I've been so lucky, received so much help and inspiration in my life, so I want to help give aspiring North Koreans a chance to prosper with international support.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Life
  • Help
  • Support

• Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

  

  Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Life
  • Future

• Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Life
  • Real
  • Happy

• I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I've been there a lot over the twenty years.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Time
  • Friend

• The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.

  

  Leon Edel
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Talent