Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Talent
• Genuine
• Enjoyment
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• If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Mom
  • Talent

• I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Inspiration
  • Philosophy
  • Look

• It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • You
  • Talent
  • Just

• The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Compassion
  • Genuine

• But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Win
  • Talent

• I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Up
  • Me
  • Talent

• It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Doubt
  • Talent
  • Belief

• Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Age
  • Never
  • Talent

• You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Vision
  • Eye
  • Talent

• New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Know
  • Discipline
  • Talent

• The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Friends
  • Intelligent

• So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'

  

  Raekwon
  • Real
  • Help
  • Attention

• Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • You
  • Talent
  • Genius

• Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Home
  • Talent
  • Sure

• Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Stupid
  • Hands
  • Talent

• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Poetry
  • Communicate
  • Genuine

• I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better I would love to be a writer.

  

  Shiloh Fernandez
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Talent

• This a surprise attack is an operation by no means to be despised in war, although it is rare, and less brilliant than a great strategic combination which renders victory certain even before the battle is fought.

  

  Antoine-Henri Jomini
  • Victory
  • Attack
  • Strategic

• Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Force
  • Rock And Roll
  • Hobby

• If Brock Lesnar was here right now, I'd take my boot off and throw it at him, and he'd better polish it up before he brings it back to me. Talking about he's the baddest guy in the UFC? Brock, quit eating so many raw eggs and doing push-ups because it's affecting your realm of reality. Are you kidding me? I'd slap you in your face, and you wouldn't do anything. 'I'm Brock Lesnar. I've got this $5 haircut and a knife tattooed on my chest.' I'll shove it up your face if you get in Chael Sonnen's way.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Guy
  • Reality
  • Faces

• Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Talent
  • Genuine
  • Enjoyment