The Ancient Romans did not regard acts of genius to emanate from within an individual - but rather saw it as a… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
The experimental film scene was very much misogynistic as well. I don't know if you have read what little attention was given… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
“Natural born geniuses, like Mozart or Shakespeare, don’t have anything more than you — they have something less. What they lack are… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin 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
“On the other hand, I must mention that, by a diligent search in lunatic asylums, I have found individual cases of patients… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
“The true man of genius deliberately subordinates himself, reduces himself to a negative, and allows his genius to play through him as… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
I once heard that Quentin Tarantino, who I obviously love and think is a genius, says that there's no such thing as… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
We [Christians] have the dilemma of using a symbol system that was not made for our worldview, to give our worldview... I… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
There are people at the extremes who aren't able to do anything musically, and then others sort of fall in the middle.… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Why had Ovid lived in Ancient Rome in 20 BCE23 and not Chicago in 2006 CE? Would Ovid still have been Ovid… — John Green Copy Share Image
The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Each person has goals. Some goals are open, visible to all who care to observe. Others are more private, shared only with… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to… — Andrew Soltis Copy Share Image
Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I was watching a movie called 'Perfume.' The book is really good, but the movie is really bad. My friend was making… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
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