Savoir Faire Quotes

• Creativity is really at the center of what I do, it's a mix of creativity, innovation and savoir faire that creates magical products.

  Delphine Arnault

  Creativity, Innovation, Products

  Source: wwd.com

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• Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Nature, Children, Home

  Charles Horton Cooley (1909). “Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order”, Glencoe, Ill., Free P

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• A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

  Alain Ducasse

  Men, Perfection, Taste

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• The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Practice, Self

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• Ash should take the ladies, because he's charming." Ash looked pleased. Jared raised his eyebrows. "Are you saying that I'm not a charmer?" "You are very dear to me, but you have all the savoir faire of a wildebeest," Kami told him. "A wildebeest," Jared repeated. "A dashingly handsome wildebeest," Kami assured him.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Eyebrows, Handsome, Ashes

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)”, p.233, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country, and the Americans are the masters of the world - for cinema, it's true.

  Michel Ocelot

  Country, Office, Hollywood

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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