Intrinsic Quality Quotes

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

Neither instinct nor style ..can be bought or taught.

Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.

You can't wake up one morning and say, 'Right, now I'm going to be a leader.' I think it is something that's in you, that you're born with, and which develops. Some people have that character, that personality and it comes naturally. You can't force it. It has to be authentic and natural. Innate.

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.

Good people are found, not changed.

If you think that one should do a commercial picture because everyone is doing it and that one will become a big star after that, I think that if you don't have that grain in you, it will not happen.

An award does not change the quality of a book.

Passion is just something that comes naturally to me.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.

Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.

Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.

Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it.