What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.” — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
I am helping people maybe scrape off some of the old stuff that has been put upon us that has taken us… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
“He was one of those who looked like a genius. I looked like a dishwasher so these types always pissed me just… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I disapprove of the analysis that Jho Low was special and that he pulled off something amazing, because I think he was… — Clare Rewcastle Brown Copy Share Image
Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are… — Stephanie Crayencour Copy Share Image
It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention… — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it's… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“The line between genius and idiocy is a big fat freaking eight-lane highway, and if you can't see that then we know… — Greg Bechtel Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
“Salvador Dalí’s aberrations are partly explicable. Perhaps they are a way of assuring himself that he is not commonplace. The two qualities… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained… — Phil Woods Copy Share Image
All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“Success at Go requires the tactic of the soldier, the exactness of the mathematician, the imagination of the artist, the inspiration of… — Zhang Yungi Copy Share Image
It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis Copy Share Image
All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a… — Henri Langlois Copy Share Image
If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails,… — Neil Bogart Copy Share Image
Kendrick is phenomenal. I've never tried and practiced a song that was as hard as when I practiced Kendrick's verse on 'Control.'… — Danielle Macdonald Copy Share Image
I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I think Harold Ramis is a genius beyond genius, and he's the nicest guy, funniest guy, sweetest guy ever. So I don't… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class,… — John H. Vincent Copy Share Image
Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To me there's a fine line between genius and crazy and sometimes you don't know which way it will steer you. — Al B. Sure Copy Share Image
Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Men of genius themselves were great only by bringing all their power to bear on the point on which they had decided… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to make people laugh. It's been my only ambition, ever since my dad introduced me to the genius of… — Diane Morgan Copy Share Image
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I'm just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
