Versatility Quotes

• It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

  H. G. Wells

  Law, Intellectual, Trouble

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.79, Delphi Classics

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• I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting.

  David Thewlis

  Jobs, Interesting, Challenges

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

  Samuel McChord Crothers

  Acceptance, Perfection, Trying

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• Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Education, Depth, Literature

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• Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Wind, Sea

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Actors, Want

  "Daniel Radcliffe On Ditching Harry And Becoming A Man". Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Lying, Philosophy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1471, Delphi Classics

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• I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lonely, Children, Responsibility

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• I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.

  Ice Cube

  Unique, Thinking, Games

  "13 Questions With Ice Cube". AskMen interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Want, Photographer

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt, Alskog, inc (1974). “The private experience: Elliott Erwitt”

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• The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system.

  Roger Smith

  Teaching, People, Diversity

  U.S. News & World Report Vol 92 (p. 66), 1982.

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• I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Hard Work, Long, Challenges

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

  Brandy Norwood

  Sound, Sides, Talent

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• I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge.

  Archie Panjabi

  Believe, Play, Long

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

  H. G. Wells

  Life Changing, Science, Needs

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.48, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.

  Alexis Sanchez

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Play, Mind, Essentials

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.238

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• Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Nature, Green Fields

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• Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.

  Frank Ocean

  Moving, Artist, Simple

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Different, Kind

  Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you’re a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Sports, Greek, Trying

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• It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.

  H. G. Wells

  Animal, Law, Perfect

  H. G. Wells “The Time Machine”, Games by CC

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• The idea is to do out-of-the-box films that showcase my versatility and talent.

  Vir Das

  Ideas, Talent, Film

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• Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.

  Wendy Starland

  Artist, Body, Enjoy

  "A Conversation with Wendy Starland". Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer.

  Steve Jobs

  Communication, Writing, Tools

  Interview with David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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