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“There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.”

Certain Social Grace Genius Mere Patterns Communicate Mortals Inability Eccentricity Mere Mortals Social Graces

Author:John Noble

“Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.”

Art Said Done Certain Effort Attitude Opinion Grace Impression Accomplished Nonchalance

Author:Baldassare Castiglione

“Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.”

Ifs Way Eye Spirit Certain Speak Effort Grace Tomorrow Comfort Promise Offers Practicals Assurance Reminders Tangible Console Extending Bruised Best Effort Better Days Dearest Friend

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.”

Source: Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).

“Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.”

Wells Certain Force Grace Depends Argument Instruction

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

“Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.”

Source: And so it goes

“Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.”

Eye Certain Grace Tomorrow Reminders Better Days

Book:Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon

Source: Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon

“Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?”

Doe Has Beens Art Hands Certain Culture Known Virtue Grace Special Art Is Vices Aesthetic Ugliness Utterance High Road

Author:Lewis Foreman Day