Exercise Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity…

— Alfred North Whitehead

One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

— Ernst Gombrich

“Well, for starters, the obvious: we all seem to agree genius begins with feats of mental greatness. The thinking needs to be novel, so…

— Steven Kotler

Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.

— Arthur Cravan

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

— Hans Hofmann

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

— Charles Churchill

“We all have the muscle of creativity in our minds, but for it to consistently give great results it needs daily exercise.”

— Yusuf A. Leinge

“The true man of genius deliberately subordinates himself, reduces himself to a negative, and allows his genius to play through him as It will.…

— Aleister Crowley

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

— Matthew Arnold

“Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.”

— Thomas Mann

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said,…

— Walter Isaacson

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

— Erica Jong