You don’t know what would have happened if I hadn’t pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.

If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters.

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the...

The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot!

I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine...

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius – the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It’s rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit...

What’s the opposite of start? Would the average person think stop or finish? The answer may reflect the difference between a winner and a loser.

To eliminate the discrepancy between men’s plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis...

Cheap, fast and reliable, the definition of vehicle gold.

Through our scientific and technological genius we’ve made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together...

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace’s line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself.

Little Richard has distinguished himself as not only an unparalleled musical genius, but also as a unique and innovative performing artist — fusing pure vocal talent with exhilarating showmanship,

He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed...

It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

To be called a genius at 17 or 18 years old can sometimes cause arrested development.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you.

We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— … are rather invention than engineering proper.

Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic, to be bad at second-guessing the good.

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the...

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his...

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”[Thoughts on Various Subjects]

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. . . . I always wondered, “Why has nobody discovered me?” In school, didn’t they see that I’m cleverer than anybody in...

It is personality with a penny’s worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

So the whole war is beause we can’t talk to each other.

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that...

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which...

Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that equalled or will equal him in the expression of thought. He...

Mum, mum,He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,Weary of all, shall want some.

There’s a Genius in all of us.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

Genius and insanity are fraternal twins.

If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like...

I think ‘Game Of Thrones’ has been genius, and I really don’t want it to end. Every episode is huge. It’s totally immense, and the actors are all fantastic in it. It has totally drawn...

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do.”The sign read:”Hold stick near...

When David Markson wrote in June to complain about an author’s getting an award he though should have been his, Wallace gently warned him away from the pitfall of envy: “Mostly I try to remember...

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Genius: Range of mind, power of imagination, and responsiveness of soul: this is genius. The man of genius has a soul with greater range, can therefore be struck by the feelings of all beings, is...

My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant.