If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.


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I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble his...
TOM WOLFE
Feminism is not about girl power. It is about equal power.
WHITNEY WOLFE
I am also working with Mark Carlton on a maze game set in Ancient Greece. It is still in the early s...
DAN WOLFE
The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as...
TOM WOLFE
There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.
TOM WOLFE
Ongoing legal action over the air permit does not preclude the building of Thoroughbred. Peabody has...
CHUCK WOLFE
The secretary is making no statements of any kind about Thoroughbred. Because she will be sitting, i...
CHUCK WOLFE
When we got there, it wasn't fully engaged, but shortly after we got there, it engulfed itself. With...
TEDDY WOLFE
Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulat...
WHITNEY WOLFE
He's a very smart guy, but he's basically carrying out the agenda of the pharmaceutical industry. Hi...
SIDNEY WOLFE
There is more to life than work. A hobby is a great outlet to relieve tension.
JIM WOLFE
There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Satu...
TOM WOLFE
He is politically a real maverick. It's very idiosyncratic, and I mean that in a good way.
TOM WOLFE
By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the e...
TOM WOLFE
Whether or not the wiretap and warrants were obtained legally are issues any lawyer is going to addr...
DAVID WOLFE
I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which yo...
JAMES WOLFE
I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in t...
TOM WOLFE
People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I...
TOM WOLFE
It's really a kick in the head to the secrecy surrounding the National Practitioners' Databank that ...
SIDNEY WOLFE
There is no person who is happier for me, ... He's been nothing but supportive and we have such a mu...
GARRETT WOLFE
I'm now concerned that they've dropped it to below the level where it makes sense for consumers to u...
CHIP WOLFE
I?m looking at probably either Columbus, Ohio, possibly Richmond Virginia, or Baltimore or laurel, M...
DARYL WOLFE
After graduating in International Relations in 2011, I turned down safe, corporate job offers and in...
WHITNEY WOLFE
Ford wanted to prove to a lot of people, and themselves, that they have access if they need it. I do...
CHRISTOPHER WOLFE
I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homewa...
TOM WOLFE
I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foible...
TOM WOLFE
The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards f...
TOM WOLFE
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and...
TOM WOLFE
One of the few freedoms that we have as human beings that cannot be taken away from us is the freedo...
TOM WOLFE
It's like we're strands of wire intertwined in a great cable that runs through a slot . . . Most peo...
TOM WOLFE
I make out a schoolbus...glowing orange, green, magenta, lavender, chlorine blue, every fluorescent ...
TOM WOLFE
A person has all sorts of lags built into him Kesey is saying. Once the most basic is the sensory la...
TOM WOLFE
No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is const...
TOM WOLFE
The real short-term outlook for us is pretty positive given that we don't see a Fed rate hike in Aug...
CHRIS WOLFE
On one level it is humorous, ridiculous and absurd. On another level it is scary.
GEORGE WOLFE
To see the defense play the way they have this entire spring kind of bothers me. I want to get out t...
GARRETT WOLFE
The thing that separates Phil from other quarterbacks we've had in the past is that there is somethi...
GARRETT WOLFE
This offense, ... is a better offense than when they had (Steelers quarterback) Ben Roethlisberger. ...
GARRETT WOLFE
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its tradit...
TOM WOLFE
To a man of sixty... one of the grimmest reminders of the Reaper's approach comes when his doctors, ...
TOM WOLFE
Those who do remember it (the past) will find new ways to screw up
CHARLES WOLFE
A lot of the early people who recorded used pieces of junk, ... Later on, they began to realize it w...
CHARLES WOLFE
I can see why Barber would make this up. He was in a kill or be killed situation, and he got what he...
MICHAEL WOLFE