A Quote by Teju Cole

There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on.

Teju Cole

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Teju Cole
Nigerian - Writer
Born: June 27, 1975

Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.

M. R. James

When we bring the filmmaker, we bring somebody to help us elevate the material with those things, to help us do something different with all of those resources at their disposal.

Kevin Feige

One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.

Marianne Moore

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

William E. Gladstone

Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. We would be bragging of course, but it is surely excusable to put the best possible face on at the beginning of such an acquaintance. We can tell the harder truths later.

Lewis Thomas

Theres that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

Lisa Guerrero

There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

Lisa Guerrero

A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.

Lord Chesterfield

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.

Jim Carrey

The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

Agnes Repplier

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

Pamela Stephenson

The right to reticence seems earned only by having nothing to hide.

Jill Johnston

Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.

Jean-Luc Godard

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you really want to help, then help others to be more present. Help others to free themselves from the past. Help others to take responsibility for themselves. Help them to see how they are creating their own suffering. Every now and then, you will encounter innocent ones who are suffering through no fault of their own, particularly animals and children. Do not hesitate! Help them.