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.

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

I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

In order to share one’s true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

Genius is intensity

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

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.

But his own mind was helpless against every moment’s headline. He did nothing but leap into the mass of changes and explore them and all the tiny facets so eventually he was completely governed by...

One night I was layin’ down,I heard Papa talkin’ to Mama,I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.’Cause it’s in him and it’s got to come out.

In the silence of night, great minds either unite or die

It had to be a trick or you couldn’t have done it.

From one sublime genius—NEWTON—more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.

The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or genius. Genius is something that cannot be seen. It cannot be produced or manufactured. It is something...

Misunderstood! It is a right fool’s word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise...

Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.

Genius’ was a word loosely used by expatriot Americans in Paris and Rome, between the Versailles Peace treaty and the Depression, to cover all varieties of artistic, literary and musical experimentalism. A useful and readable...

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be...

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

I think it’s important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

But why would they do that? What is to be asked? He was a man who sees into things — very ordinary things. A hat left on the floor of a café in Kingstown, a...

To access your subconscious, is to access your ‘higher-self.

He was as close as NIU got to a true genius,

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

…why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age….

If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ?

Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Gently the waves would break (Lily heard them in her sleep); tenderly the light fell (it seemed to come through her eyelids). And it all looked, Mr. Carmichael thought, shutting his book, falling asleep, much...

To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers. That a game can...

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...

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...

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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...