Genius Quote by James Whistler Download Open image “I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.” — James Whistler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Genius Genius Hereditary Granted Granted Offspring Heaven Hereditary Hereditary Heaven Intelligence Offspring Tell Genius
The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“The secret to genius is not genetics but daily ritual married with perseverance.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong... — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe. — James Whistler Copy Share Image
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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