“Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions — repressed.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
Original: Nella salute, nelle relazioni, nel talento o nelle passioni, sii presente. Il tempo non aspetta, e tutto ciò che viene trascurato, è irrimediabilmente perso.
Source: prevale.net
“Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions — repressed.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“It is not lost time to wait upon God!”
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(Leslie T. Lyall. A Passion for the Impossible: The Continuing Story of the Mission Hudson Taylor Began. London: OMF Books, 1965, 68).
“But meanwhile it is flying, irretrievable time is flying.”
Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile<!--inreparabile?--> tempus.
Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus.
Book III, line 284; often quoted as tempus fugit ('time flies').
Compare Poor Richard's maxim of 1748: "Lost Time is never found again."
Georgics (29 BC)
George Lois (1931) American art director, designer and author
Randolph Roque Calvo (1951) Catholic bishop
Bishop visits Virginia City to give homily at final St. Mary's Mass https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/2008/sep/08/bishop-visits-virginia-city-to-give-homily-at-fina/ (September 8, 2008)
“The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Poetry and Imagination <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
Source: Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus
“All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.”
Yanni (1954) Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer
Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin
“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Bk. X, ch. 16
War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)
