Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them. — Del Close Copy Share Image
From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“One is born with a unique set of talents and abilities. One must choose which of those talents to nurture, which to… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever… — Franz Beckenbauer Copy Share Image
Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail. — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire... — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Lincoln is a genius of language and a brilliant writer who deserves to be seen as part of the canon of great… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses. — Richard Donner Copy Share Image
But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
“As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum… — Dylan McDermott 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
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
In the Making Of book ["300"] there's a guy named Victor Davis Hanson who is a a frickin genius. He's a Greek… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
As a firm believer in the power of songwriting, I feel privileged to be part of a team that continues to help… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image