"All the intelligence and talent in the world can’t make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can’t be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens."
― Willa Cather
Topic(s):
Intelligence
More From Willa Cather
- "That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."
- "It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."
- "Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
More In Intelligence
- "The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."― Albert Camus
- "The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft."― John Pistole
- "If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student."― Paul Graham