What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks." I was a… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
Hence the genius of having Ken steer this ship as well. You have to invest these characters with a Shakespearian quality and… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
“When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in… — Hilary Austen Copy Share Image
Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without… — Patricia Polacco Copy Share Image
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I met David Bowie when I was 14, and he became a hero to me - because he was an artist, and… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
My brother is a genius. When we went to Italy, he was on the local television channel as a prodigy, who could… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties,… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
There's a quote I love, the full version is a bastardisation of quotes from William Hutchison Murray and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,… — John Robins Copy Share Image
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Doing 'Veronica Mars,' Rob Thomas is a genius. He's one of my best friends. I had this feeling like I couldn't write… — Diane Ruggiero Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination;… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich,… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view,… — Clare Boylan Copy Share Image
To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access… — Cara Buono Copy Share Image
It's a total big difference between a person that got lyrics and a person that can make hit singles. I'm a person… — Waka Flocka Flame Copy Share Image
Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let him be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I begged her to write a song and she said yes. I am a huge Regina Spektor fan. I think she's a… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered… — Peter Kline Copy Share Image
A savant, by definition, is somebody who has a disability and, along with that disability, has some remarkable ability. Prodigies and geniuses… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
I ask the citizens of this Republic whether such a state of things is to be suffered to pass unnoticed, and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to help you become the next Great American Novelist. Hopefully after you use it to crack your… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
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