“Genius' was a word loosely used by expatriot Americans in Paris and Rome, between the Versailles Peace treaty and the Depression, to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Having everyone get exposed to brainstorming, prototyping, thinking about a problem, that's a best practice. One of the things I love seeing… — Megan Smith Copy Share Image
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
I think that there are all these amazing figures in our history - the Bowies, the Tina Turners, the Chers, the people… — King Princess Copy Share Image
Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. "Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You need everyone to get together and just believe in it, and lead by example that it is possible to be outside… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly… — Francois-Henri Pinault Copy Share Image
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Film maker Andi Olsen has a wonderful short film called Where the Smiling Ends. She waited at the Trevi Fountain in Rome… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
“The task of genius is to keep the miracle alive, to live always in the miracle, to make the miracle more and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making… — William Alfred Quayle Copy Share Image
Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that the need for cash and the production of a masterpiece just don't coincide with me. Money will… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
I have worked with countless organizations that exhaust energy adapting to the weaknesses of the leader. I had a leader announce to… — Chip Espinoza Copy Share Image
Post Malone is one of my biggest inspirations. I just love his songs and his writing. He's a genius. Then person-wise, I'm… — Tate McRae Copy Share Image
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The life's story of great geniuses is a sad one, without much tangible reward, which does not inspire future generations to face… — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To acquire the full consciousness of self is to know oneself so different from others that no longer feels allied with men… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
At the beginning, Edo was a photographer, and I was more of a talent scout and doing styling and modelling. Then all… — Maripol Copy Share Image
Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Jonas Wergeland's first stroke of genius, albeit unbeknownst to himself, was to choose a girl as his best friend. It was Nefertiti… — Jan Kjærstad Copy Share Image
This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed,… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Genius: Range of mind, power of imagination, and responsiveness of soul: this is genius. The man of genius has a soul with… — Jean-François de Saint-Lambert Copy Share Image
For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“It's hard to pin down what my actual [IQ] score might be. It's silly to think that people even have one set… — Rick Rosner Copy Share Image
Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image