Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring. — David Ogilvy 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
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness… — W. H. Murray Copy Share Image
“The thing about TRUTH is...it doesn't require a quantity method of communication or special genius. Just speak it in a spirit of… — Dr. Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
The one thing that Hendrix had that is unique among extraordinary guitar players is he had songs that were on the radio.… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree…… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
That Ted Turner is a genius...He has taken what used to be a carnival side show and turned it into a gold… — Samantha Barks Copy Share Image
The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence,… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for… — Zoketsu Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
“I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think the Reagan people are superb marketers. Their whole approach to polling, to television, to the symbolism and the rest approaches… — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
“genius is a path that we can all take and derive much benefit, happiness, fulfillment, and success from...not a genetic windfall or… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“I'm a math genius!" - Niall "675 books plus 350 books equals?" - Louis "...A Library! Ask harder questions Lou!" - Niall” — Jessica Stewart Copy Share Image
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image