A Quote by Evan Esar

An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.

Evan Esar

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Actor Capacity Infinite Man Praise Taking

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Evan Esar
American - Writer
1899 - 1995

Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.

Helene Hanff

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

Idries Shah

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Thomas Carlyle

Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.

Napoleon Hill

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

Knute Rockne

Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.

Aldous Huxley

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Aldous Huxley

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

Cleveland Amory

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

Robert Green Ingersoll

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

Branch Rickey

The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay

Goronwy Rees

I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man. More especially, since it is impossible for me to have any positive, clear idea of that which is infinite and incomprehensible, I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

Benjamin Franklin

The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.