Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius.… — Patrick Fischler Copy Share Image
Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
When you're in a play, 50 percent is the genius of the actor, 50 percent is the genius of the author. When… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Holly frowned at her. "Glad to see you've forgiven yourself so quickly." "Harboring feelings of guilt can have a negative affect on… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Each culture is different. Each species is unique. That presents challenges to the warrior, who often must ascertain from limited clues the… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in… — Erich von Manstein Copy Share Image
Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago,… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of… — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning. — Peter York Copy Share Image
Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.” — Henrik Tikkanen Copy Share Image
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
I believe that we have the first genius of the 21st century, Leo Messi. — Jorge Valdano Copy Share Image
Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it. — Jacques Pierre Brissot Copy Share Image
The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image