A Quote by Karl Kraus

Talent is often a defect in character.

Karl Kraus

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Character Defect Often Talent

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Karl Kraus
Austrian - Writer
April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1936

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

Tim Buckley

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

Quentin Blake

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

Rebecca West

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

Noam Chomsky

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

David Stove

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No talent, but yet a character. [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]

Heinrich Heine

I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some defect, you make it obvious to everyone, and suddenly everyone is staring at just that defect. It's always like that. The more you hide something, the more it shows. But when you accept your defect, suddenly no one on earth sees it anymore.

Audrey Tautou

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

V. S. Pritchett

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Bertolt Brecht

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It is not quite sufficient to good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.