“Genius cannot simply float in the clouds, it must also operate down on earth.” — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“All opponents are not necessarily enemies. But both enemies and opponents carry certain characteristics in common. Both perceive their opposite as an… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.” — Susan Bell Copy Share Image
“To acquire the full consciousness of self is to know oneself so different from others that no longer feels allied with men… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism,… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A genius is a man who can rewrap a new shirt and not have any pins left over. — Dino Levi 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
“A life path may change because of important decisions or events. Those were what drove my current path. But sometimes the smallest… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
Women. Who made 'em? God must have been a genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have… — Bo Goldman Copy Share Image
It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by… — Marianne Williamson 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
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I loved old movies, and it would really bother me when actors clearly weren't playing the instruments they were supposed to be… — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone;… — Epictetus 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
Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and starving him. He stopped writing… — Raymond Weaver Copy Share Image
There's something very funny about giving a menial task to a genius and watching him find so much complexity and overanalyse it… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
“Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world… — IFEANYI ENOCH ONUOHA Copy Share Image
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I'm a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they're genius. I think they're some of the best work out there and completely… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man. — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
