Genius Quotes · Page 48

“For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.”

— Orson Scott Card

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

— Anonymous

“No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.”

— Amit Kalantri

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

— Walter Russell

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

— Wallace D. Wattles

“The line between creative and crazy is mighty thin.”

— T.C. Slonaker

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

— Peter Thiel

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

— Pindar

However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the…

— Edward Young

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically.…

— Dorothy Thompson

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had…

— Janet Flanner

Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of…

— James Clapper

Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives…

— Flea

“It’s no coincidence that geniuses not only dare to dream of the impossible for their work, but do the same for their…

— Sean Patrick

“Finding people’s native genius and then labeling it is a direct approach to drawing more intelligence from them.”

— Liz Wiseman

“Funny, gorgeous, and a genius. What a package." He backed out of the parking space, smiling as he drove away. I loved…

— Myra McEntire

Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white…

— William Carlos Williams

Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music.…

— Gabor Szabo

The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it…

— William Mountford

For me, there are two different things that make Sherlock Sherlock. One is, you know, within the books: obviously he's a genius…

— Jonny Lee Miller

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe…

— Rob Brezsny

Holly clambered after him, struggling up the human-size steps. "Wait! Just wait," she called, overtaking Artemis and looking him in the eye…

— Eoin Colfer

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

— Henry Thomas Buckle

The H-1B visa is called the 'genius visa' for a reason.

— Michio Kaku

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

— John Denham

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

— Alexander Hamilton

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

— Martellus Bennett

Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.

— Jubal

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

— Walter Lippmann

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

— Woody Guthrie

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

— Tallulah Bankhead

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.

— Mo Rocca

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

— Abraham Lincoln

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

— Arlene Croce

“When the talent is torrential, the harvest is inevitable.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

— Seamus Heaney

It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

— Will Rogers