Quote

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

Bryce Courtenay

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bryce Courtenay
Age: 79 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 1
Died: 2012
Died: November 22
Novelist
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Arthur Bryce Courtenay
Toward
Substance
Challenges
Master
Maybe
Challenge
Practice
Shadow
Ends
Gift
Must
Intelligence
Work
Masters
Cleverness
Life
Harder
Whereas

More quotes by Bryce Courtenay

Image
The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
The imagination is always the best torturer.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!
Bryce Courtenay
Image
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
Bryce Courtenay
Image
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.
Bryce Courtenay