“Because I've learned that you can't control what other people are going to think about you. The best you can do in… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent,… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full… — Thomas Gainsborough Copy Share Image
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In the Making Of book ["300"] there's a guy named Victor Davis Hanson who is a a frickin genius. He's a Greek… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Genius is a word that is very loosely used nowadays. It is ascribed to persons to whom a more sober judgement would… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius inan essentially common personis detestable. It spoils the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These… — Thomas Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I’m that annoying?” “Well, you have pretty sharp mouth.” “I don’t want to sound like a smartass, but sir I can’t handle… — Rea Lidde Copy Share Image
“One is born with a unique set of talents and abilities. One must choose which of those talents to nurture, which to… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the… — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone. — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
James Cameron thinks we can do anything. He'll let you try anything. There are very few geniuses in the world, let alone… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire… — May Sinclair Copy Share Image
Genius attracts more hate than love and more disrespect than respect; at least for the first few hundred years. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“Talented people hit targets no one else can hit. Ambitious people aim to hit targets no one else can see.” — Addoo S. Mukhtar Copy Share Image
“What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability… — Joan Acocella Copy Share Image
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best;… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and direct all your… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image