Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So,… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
It's very unlikely you're a genius, but, if you're ready to work at it hard and you want to listen to music… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I love going to the runway shows. It's not so much for me a shopping trip as it is the appreciation of… — Scott Schuman Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and?there ismore beauty… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
We relate to Leonardo da Vinci because his genius was just being passionately curious about everything. He wanted to know everything he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There is no proof, but they all sense it. They are all geniuses that appear once in a decade. The only ones… — Tadatoshi Fujimaki Copy Share Image
We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit… But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With Halloween, the director was this genius wonder boy who was the writer, director, producer, along with his girlfriend. They were this… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
I know how to turn it on [computer]. I know where the disc goes: in that little slot but I can't always… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism.… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to… — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The other financial genius, John McCain, said the fundamentals of our economy are strong, and then yesterday he wanted to fire the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“Genius loci cannot be designed to order. It has to evolve, to be allowed to hapen, to grow and change from the… — Edward Relph Copy Share Image
“A great tactician creates plans. A good tactician recognizes the soundness of a plan presented on him. A fair tactician must see… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Genius in the popular sense has become common. (...) Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. He… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
That impossible dream you dreamed when you were young but got talked out of, the one you thought you outgrew, might be… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
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