“Men of genius themselves were great only by bringing all their power to bear on the point on which they had decided… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To me there's a fine line between genius and crazy and sometimes you don't know which way it will steer you. — Al B. Sure Copy Share Image
“If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like… — Vitalik Buterin Copy Share Image
I didn’t tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in after the last time you and I saw each… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters.… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now,… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot. — Shlomo Riskin Copy Share Image
“I say, 'Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose, and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha!” — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“You're not stupid for not knowing how to turn on a light bulb. You're a genius for not knowing how to turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged. — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
Pain is definitely a genius in his own right. 'Thr33 Ringz' is definitely one of my top 10 albums. It's one of… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
I am helping people maybe scrape off some of the old stuff that has been put upon us that has taken us… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
“Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.” — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“He was one of those who looked like a genius. I looked like a dishwasher so these types always pissed me just… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
“Success at Go requires the tactic of the soldier, the exactness of the mathematician, the imagination of the artist, the inspiration of… — Zhang Yungi Copy Share Image
This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention… — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are… — Stephanie Crayencour Copy Share Image
I disapprove of the analysis that Jho Low was special and that he pulled off something amazing, because I think he was… — Clare Rewcastle Brown Copy Share Image
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs.… — Beck Copy Share Image
Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let… — Katt Williams Copy Share Image
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Albert Einstein didn't care where he lived. Albert Einstein was a genius. Albert Einstein wasn't getting lost in the master bedroom, he… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
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![“Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters. And who matters is a function of what matters. [If] what matters is intelligence, the people who matter are the intelligent, and the people who matter the most, the heroes, are the…” quote by Rebecca Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/815/rebecca-goldstein-4026_function_everyone-loves-a-hero-what-we-differ-on_1301262.jpg)
![“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith…” quote by Lester Bangs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aad/lester-bangs-9750_beatles_like-almost-all-of-beefheart-s-recorded_60270.jpg)
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