Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style. — Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm Copy Share Image
“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration - said the genius who was 1% showman and 99% fraud.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
“genius is much more than high intelligence, innate talent, extraordinary work ethic, or uncanny luck, but rather a composite manifestation; a synthesis… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have crazy ideas that sound crazy to everybody, but I'm sure everybody has had a crazy idea before. When you… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
Genius is present in every age,but the men carrying it withinthem remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, "I can do that". One reason I've succeeded is… — Donny Deutsch Copy Share Image
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The iPhone will forever be associated with the inventive genius of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley. But the roots of innovation can… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the… — Bruce Hutchison Copy Share Image
I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No kid is unsmart. Every kid's a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“The genius. This is a skill to interact with outside environment, or source.” — VicDo Copy Share Image
Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius. — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
