“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“There never was a man who could sit down and say: 'Now I am going to be the first man to write.” — David Diringer Copy Share Image
“Fielding was a strange dichotomy of arrogant genius and self-conscious wallflower.” — Eli Easton Copy Share Image
Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Rest in peace, Steve Jobs. Your genius will live on for generations to come... — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose. — Moses Harvey Copy Share Image
“A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck. So the question is: Have you ever… — Seth Godin (Author Copy Share Image
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it. — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius." — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In 1980s, I discovered 'Late Night with David Letterman.' It was on one of the 13 cable TV channels. They didn't have… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I'm wired with a little bit of self-loathing, not that kind of self-loathing that paralyzes me, but it's there. The things I'm… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Well Socrates is 70 when he dies. He's been allowed to philosophise freely in the city for almost 50 years. He clearly… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
In a sense, I am achieving what I set out to do - to devote myself to Stephen, to give him the… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image