Genius Quotes - Page 8

Rocket shipsare excitingbut so are roseson a birthday.

Genius as such can neither be explained nor treated away only at times its delay and inhibition and its perversion to destructive or self-destructive ends.

In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.

Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.

Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.

There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall.

How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music

Genius is 10% talent and 90% hard work

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

A.Coward," he repeated, and I briefly considered picking up the vase in the center of the island and throwing it at him."Not making a choice is the coward's way out. You love both of them. I get that. But you don't feel the same kind of love for both of them, and the sooner you accept that the better.

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 that even the true genius thinks is unattainable. The genius recognizes he’s just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms. Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

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

Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.

How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred thousand? ... So this is what Einstein meant when he looked me in the eye that day and said, I would be nothing without you. It was not success he saw written in my face. He saw, rather, that I would never accomplish anything at all.

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

One of the best examples of a polymath is Leonardo da Vinci. Born in Italy in 1452, Leonardo was a sculptor, painter, architect, mathematician, musician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, botanist, geologist, cartographer and writer. Although he received an informal education that included geometry, Latin and mathematics, he was essentially an autodidact, or a self-taught individual.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.

Contemplation and writing demand solitude, which leads to a sorry feeling of isolation and detachment. Writers try to call their loneliness genius, and the world believes them most of the time.

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

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.

Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.

Girls did that then – knocked themselves out to support some man’s notion of his own genius. What was Gavin doing to help pay the rent? Not much, though she suspected him of dealing pot on the side. Once in a while they even smoked some of that, though not often, because it made Constance cough. It was all very romantic.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.

The unrecognized genius—that’s an old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one—the genius recognized too well? ... That a great many men are poor fools who can’t see the best—that’s nothing. One can’t get angry at that. But do you understand about the men who see it and don’t want it?

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.

Let your work speak for itself:If poor, it will remain silent.If average, it will whisper.If good, it will talk.If great, it will shout.If genius, it will sing.

Brilliance is the masterpiece of your mind. Excellence is the masterpiece of your heart. Genius is the masterpiece of your soul.

A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.

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 it with the greatest precision and unleash it with the fullest abandon.

this was business.

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

The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and truth in this country if you'll just get yourself called Reverend. People like that should be out in the street, shouting and hollering with a cardboard sign and selling pencils from a cup.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

There’s no logical connection between being smart and having money.

Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain.

There is no any secret to being a genius, all you have to do is be yourself.

In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!

Seldom can one attain victory in ware fare without allies. Some allies provide direct assistance, the two forces battling side by side. Other allies provide logistical support, whether weapons and combat equipment or simply food and other life needs. Sometimes the most effective use of an ally is as a threat, his very presence creating a distraction or forcing the common enemy to deploy resources away from the main Battlefront.But standing by an ally doesn't necessarily mean one will always agree with that ally. Or with his goals or methods.

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

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 of genius in them in the context of the adjective.

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.

It is not the soul that speaks its mind, but the mind that speaks its soul, that will be heard.

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.

The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.

Every man is a genius, for God exists in all men.

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

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

Genius by birth, Bipolar by design

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.

It has been written that so much of life is preparation, so much is routine, and so much is retrospect that the purest essence of anyone's genius contracts itself to a precious few hours.

How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves?

Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends

Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination.

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.