I'm not saying that I'm the grand genius that came in on a float and made it happen, but they liked my… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
I remember when the great composer Madan Mohan had suddenly passed away, the producer-director H.S. Rawail had approached me to complete three… — Rajesh Roshan Copy Share Image
Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
I don't think you can be involved in film and not be a fan of theirs. The one that I just go… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as… — Sophia Lyon Fahs Copy Share Image
Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck)… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Like a master of origami who can take a simple square of paper and turn it into an intricate network of folded… — Virginia M. Sanders Copy Share Image
Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic –… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“The humorous self-sufficiency of genius is the unity of a modest resignation in the world and a proud elevation above the world:… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
#TimesUp is you can't hold it in anymore: Time's up! The doors have to give way. It can't be that every 27-year-old… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Norbert the Nutjob may have been a maniac, but lunacy and genius are very close together, and it had to be admitted,… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“True brilliance has a well-known positive correlation with decency, much of the time--a fact the rest of us rely on, more than… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“The magic of Paul’s intelligence is that he has more patience than anyone I’ve ever met, and with it he simply wears… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
“All strive for victory. But not all understand what it truly is. To a soldier or pilot on the line, victory is… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
Glenn's passing was so unexpected and has left me with a very heavy heart filled with sorrow. He was so young and… — Don Felder Copy Share Image
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
