Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“To some extent, the direction of one's chosen path automatically selects for the paths that may cross it. A warriors path will… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib.… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington is my choice for many reasons. Nobody has written so many great pieces of music, which are everlasting, and he… — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
I want to explore the borders between being a genius and being an idiot. — Alvin Leung Copy Share Image
What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time. — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter;… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his. — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Every single person in the world could be a genius at something, if they practiced it daily for at least ten years… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?' — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really. — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
To me there's a fine line between genius and crazy and sometimes you don't know which way it will steer you. — Al B. Sure Copy Share Image
“Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.… — Seth Godin (Author Copy Share Image
Sana Takeda is a genius. It's really that simple. Her vision and sense of story and beauty is beyond compare. I loved… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
