who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits...

Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.

I’ve proved my point. I’ve demonstrated there’s no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far the world is...

There never was a man who could sit down and say: ‘Now I am going to be the first man to write.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

The key here is Ferrer is running for an office that no longer exists, … Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

Being genius does not necessarily mean knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification; but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously, exhibiting...

To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.

What a vapid job title our culture gives to those honorable laborers the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians variously called Learned Men of the Magic Library, Scribes of the Double House of Life, Mistresses of the...

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

I knew it was coming. I knew they didn’t have the nerve.Three days in and they’ve got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only...

As we discard a limited mind and a life of limitation to step into the grandness of vastness, we realize infinity itself to be the Guru and all that we do as grace. As we...

When it comes to most true bipolars, consider this thought: Genius by birth, bipolar by design.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

Somos luz, ,sabe?, nada más que luz: somos la luz que se les ofrece a los bateadores de críquet al final del día, los ojos brillantes del amado, el resplandor de la cerilla de seguridad...

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men–that is genius.

He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the madness...

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

George Saunders is a complete genius.

I’m a misunderstood genius.””What’s misunderstood?””Nobody thinks I’m a genius.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn’t really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.

A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.

Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually form itself around it.Every activity of man is amazingly complicated, not only that...

I’ll sell you one shoe for half off, since it’s half the set. But if you want the second shoe, it’ll cost you twice as much.

There’s no such word as genius, it is just the combination of hard work and determination.

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

I have never seen genius without a touch of madness… and vice versa.

The divine egoism hat is genius.

We don’t punish the ones who fail. They just-don’t go on,

When the wind blows, curtain steps aside; when the genius blows, the intelligent stands aside!

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Ronald Fisher was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science.

Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is.

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they...

Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator. To your skillfulness, add good manners; to your willfulness, add carefulness!

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can’t change much or go any higher than they are, but you’re a genius. You’ll keep going up and up, and see more and...

There are two kinds of geniuses: the ‘ordinary’ and the ‘magicians’. An ordinary genius is a fellow whom you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There...

Developing a genius mindset essentially comes down to two things: operating at speed and using the subconscious mind more than the conscious. This intuitive or relaxed approach to study is the polar opposite of traditional...

Almost all genius up to now was one-sided—the result of a sickly constitution. One type had too much sense of the external, the other too much inner sense. Seldom could nature achieve a balance between...

To see things in the seed, that is genius.