Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that… — John Todd Copy Share Image
In order for us [people] to progress, we need brilliance and brilliance isn't fair and it's not polite and we can't grow… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to… — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end.… — Fredric Brown Copy Share Image
The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I didn't abandon my studies. Because I was, through no - clarify this. Through no particular genius of my own, I was… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently… — John Ambrose Fleming Copy Share Image
While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
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We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
“Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God… — Albert Einstein 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
I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, ‘You… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I just want people to recognize my father as an artist who was way ahead of his time. He was a genius.… — Freddie Prinze, Jr Copy Share Image
Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax.… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I admire Russell Simmons. He is a successful dude that has done a little bit of everything. He keeps it moving, and… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
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