A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of… — Gamal Abdel Nasser Copy Share Image
“Alec encapsulated the word genius in every conceivable sense. Frank knew it. He'd always known it. He'd never learned that true genius… — Zathyn Priest Copy Share Image
have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his… — Gerald Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Wyatt avoided the petty gunfights and headed to a saloon and rigged up a bunch of Molotov cocktails. Her firebombs against members… — S. J. Kincaid Copy Share Image
I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
And what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius. — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius… — William James Copy Share Image
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud. — George Sand Copy Share Image
... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different. — Billy Eckstine Copy Share Image
The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
You don't even really need a place. But you feel like you're doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's… — Prince Copy Share Image
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pop Salvation is a genius take on discovering who you are by becoming what you most admire. If I didn’t know better,… — Josh Kilmer-Purcell Copy Share Image
“Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take… — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I'd want to meet Lil Wayne. He's a very smart man, intelligent guy and a lyrical genius. So I'd want to see… — Patrick Chung Copy Share Image
For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know.… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image