Genius Quotes - Page 2

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

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it.

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

It is said that one should keep one's allies within view, and one's enemies within reach.A valid statement. One must be able to read an ally's strengths, so as to determine how to best use them. One must similarly be able to read his enemy's weaknesses, so as to determine how to best defeat him.But what of friends?There is no accepted answer, perhaps true friendship is so exceedingly rare. But I had formulated my own.A friend need not be kept within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If one is fortunate, those paths will for a time join. But if paths separate, it is comforting to know that a friend still graces the universe with his skills, and his viewpoint, and his present. For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone.

It takes immense genius to represent simply and sincerely what we see in front of us.

Look at every ‘revolutionary’ brand or category killer, it had an app, or a feature, or a functionality, or a user experience nobody else at that point could offer. I refer to this as ‘the Killer App’ principle.

Geniuses are their own saviors.

Empathy needs no genius.

We have never understood how birds manage to fly,Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem.

There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.

Excellence annoys your haters, success infuriates them, and genius kills them.

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 in hell--the hell of your own meanness.

Genius is talent set on fire.

Big dreamers achieve more than big doubters.

I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.

Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

I cannot live to hear the news from England.But I do prophesy th' election lightsOn Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.So tell him, with th' occurents, more and less,Which have solicited - the rest is silence.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

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.

To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

An intelligent consistency is the foundation of genius.

The 'magic' is the known and unknown quiet, spiritual, invisible thread which links and reveals harmonic elements to a universe of high vibrational sensory. And our beloved Bro. Maurice David knew it's undeniable creative power, from within.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

And here we go creating great men out of artisans who happened to have stumbled on a way to improve electrical apparatus or pedal through Sweden on a bicycle! And we solicit great men to write books promoting the cult of other great men! It's really very funny, and worth the price of admission! It will all end up with every village having his own great man - a lawyer, a novelist, and a polar explorer of immense stature! And the world will become wonderfully flat and simple and easy to master . . .

So it comes down to scarcity, one product or service having qualities you won’t find everywhere or ideally, anywhere. It’s the job of every brand to seek that out as their standard, their stamp.

you never know your true genius untill you do what you love

I was a young, & had deep loves, & my heart would overflow with enthusiasm! And I mingled with the crowd, I mixed with my fellow men, speaking my thought out loud! And they gaped back at me, without understanding. And I withdrew from them, & they said to me: Arrogant one! And from time to time in my solitude, my loves, my repressed enthusiasms broke out into odes, conversation; & my companions laughed and used to point at me as a madman. So I suffered, doubted, cursed, & no one believed me sincere. It’s as if this heart, once so full of strength & love were annihilated.

Perform your task and I shall know you. Perform your task and your genius shall befriend the more.

It's hard to pin down what my actual [IQ] score might be. It's silly to think that people even have one set IQ and that it's precisely measurable. My lowest scores probably reflect less than my maximum effort, and my highest scores probably grant me some extra points due to crazily high levels of diligence plus vast experience with these tests. It doesn't really matter unless we want to turn IQ testing into a reality show sport.

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man," he said. "There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. Von Neumann didn’t say anything but after five minutes he raised his hand. When I called on him he went to the blackboard and proceeded to write down the proof. After that I was afraid of von Neumann.

There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person.

Make your mark now.Make your mark today.Make your mark forever.

Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.

Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

You become the master of what you master.

Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box.

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

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Is there a word for 'total screaming genius' that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?

Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.

Results! Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.

There are three ways to take down a wild tusklan.The average hunter takes a large-bore weapon with which to shoot the animal. When it works, the method is quick and efficient. But if the first shot fails to hit a vital organ, the tusklan may be upon its attackerbfore a second shot can be aimed and fired.The wise hunter takes a smaller-bore weapon. The method is less likely to produce a first-shot kill, but the second, third, or fourth shot may succeed. However if the bore is to small, none of the shots will penetrate to vital points, and the tusklan will again triumph over its attacker.The subtle hunter takes no visible weapon at all. He instead induces a thousand sting flies to attack the tusklan from all sides. The method is slow, and destructive of the pelt. But in the end, the tusklan is dead. And dies never knowing where the attack came from.