Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
[Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“{Letter from Debbs to Eva Ingersoll, husband of Robert Ingersoll , just after the news of Robert's death} We were inexpressibly shocked… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear.… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare… — Wallace Thurman Copy Share Image
No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again,… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
You're better off owning 30 percent and having two amazing partners who compliment you and are equally as driven as you are… — Rob Dyrdek Copy Share Image
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Im doing pretty good as far as geniuses go ... Im like a machine. Im a robot. You cannot offend a robot… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Scholesy was a genius, absolute genius. He was a center-forward's dream, you could make a run and he'd put the ball perfectly… — Michael Owen Copy Share Image
When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
The genius of the market is supposed to lie in its ability to allocate society's resources to their most efficient uses without… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living,… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I might not be all that good with mathematics in class; but go into my mind; and you will see that type… — Temitope Owosela Copy Share Image
vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
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