Quotes About Autodidacts

#1. Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.

Umberto Eco

#2. Only the autodidacts are free.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description.

Charles Stross

#4. We needed to be autodidacts; we needed to pass books from hand to hand; we needed to search, and thus be inspired by hard-won effort to create ourselves. We needed to understand that there is power in searching and finding and not having things handed to us.

Kathleen Collins

#5. Only the autodidacts are free. And not just in school matters - those who decommoditize, detouristify their lives.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting.

James Fenton

#7. I can see into his soul, and it is beautiful.

Alex Flinn

#8. I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.

Sean Combs

#9. At best-which is to say, even where our knowledge of a case comes to us only through courtroom evidence-it is difficult for the legal process to keep us at a sanitizing distance from crimes of passion.

Diana Trilling

#10. I want a place. It has to do with the kind of person I want to be. And how I fit in to everything. I want people to listen when I open my mouth. And know I'm worth listening to."
She stared at me. "That's all?"
To me it was not all, it was everything.

Ann Rinaldi

#11. The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

Peter Davison

#12. I relinquish control. Not that she'd ever fully had it. In four swift strides, he was on her, lifting her, and slamming her back against the nearest wall.

Pam Godwin

#13. So eager to die are you? (Zakar)
Not particularly, but I'd rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. Countering violent extremism and destroying ISIS must be done primarily by Muslim nations with the strong support of their global partners.

Bernie Sanders

#15. The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them.

Rachel Cohen

#16. Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.

Walter Kaufmann

#17. You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.

Tony Robbins

#18. I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.

Richie Sambora

#19. Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

Jessica Capshaw

#20. I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

Mark Haddon