David Mitchell Quotes


Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.


Citations

Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas. Random House, 2004.

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David Mitchell
David Mitchell
  • Born: January 12, 1969
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Novelist

David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist and screenwriter.