Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and… — Aneurin Bevan 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
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity. — David Farland Copy Share Image
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . . a provocative… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
"Ask, and it is given" means that whether you are a full blossoming genius human, or whether you are the one-celled amoeba… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“Genius has now all-but disappeared from public view; partly because intelligence (which is strongly genetic) is in decline in the West, partly… — Bruce Charlton Copy Share Image
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization. — Adrienne Clarkson Copy Share Image
Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul,… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers… — Jordan Peterson 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
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