Achievement Quote by Dean Keith Simonton

Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It's about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses grab life…

— Scott Barry Kaufman

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

— Immanuel Kant

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without…

— Napoleon Hill

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer…

— William Gilmore Simms

Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the…

— Mark Twain

My definition [of genius] would be about being completely involved in your art form. So that's outside of sciences. Within the arts it's about…

— Russell Crowe

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which…

— Joshua Reynolds

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are…

— Wallace D. Wattles

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

— James Lipton

Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.

— Christopher Ricks

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are…

— Wayne Dyer