Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it. — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius. — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury;… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon , Descartes , Newton — these tutors of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours. — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people. — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I don't know if there's a genetic marker for entrepreneurship. But if there is, it's most likely not a genius for planning.… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend… — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
To beat Federer 3 times does not mean anything he is a genius whose hair does not even move when he plays. — Guillermo Canas Copy Share Image
“But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I'm the biggest fight - obviously. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out; anybody I fight is going to be… — Sean O'Malley Copy Share Image
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
When the audience reacts all together, it's genius. The audience is its own being in a way. It's a weird, amorphous beast… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.” — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius. — George Pope Morris Copy Share Image
My father was a genius footballer, a natural, two-footed centre-forward who had played for Arsenal juniors, but he was sent out to… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional… — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
