I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce,… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not… — Leon Levy Copy Share Image
The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“No one is immune to failure. All have tasted the bitterness of defeat and disappointment. A warrior must not dwell on that… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Risk is more than is required. Learn more than is normal. Be strong. Show courage. Breathe. Excel. Love. Lead. Speak your truth.… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom.… — Boo Weekley Copy Share Image
To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up… — Peter Bayne Copy Share Image
Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
