Quote

I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.

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
Loses
Gifted
Brain
Gifts
Given
Older
Hard
Worked
People
Intellectual
Watches
Cleanness
Watch
Acuity
Lose
Sharpness

More quotes by Bryce Courtenay

Image
You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the desination. Imagine your arrival. Dream in perfect detail. See yourself the way you want to be when you arrive. See yourself arriving. Make yourself a road map and study it every day until you know the way and the destination by heart.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
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
Image
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been
Bryce Courtenay
Image
Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.
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
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
Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
Bryce Courtenay
Image
Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.
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
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.
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
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 tell myself lies and soon I believe them.
Bryce Courtenay
Image
The imagination is always the best torturer.
Bryce Courtenay