Genius Quotes

Mythic imagination can break the spell of time and open us to a level of life that remains timeless. Myth is not about what happened in past times

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius.

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.

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.

When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you’re not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn’t be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.

Why do some brands grow explosively when others (that could be thriving) die a lonely and forgettable death?

A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it’s irrelevant. But to the right audience, it’s a passion.

The biggest mistake brands make are trying to “sell their stuff” rather than clarifying what people are actually buying.

It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace.

There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.

Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW

Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world

That’s the problem with any ‘simple truth’—it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.

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

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

The World is a Treasure Map.

The world is a Treasure Map

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

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

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

You're a Genius all the time

Yes, failure is part of the mix, he says, but it is a means, not an end. If you fail repeatedly, and in the same manner, you're an idiot, not a genius.

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

Color me....BRILLIANT.

Sometimes she arches away from me and wears a light halo of genius about her.

...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...

The place was silent and - aware.

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

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

Sure I eat my feelings, but I save the emotional roller coaster for dessert

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

As a child i was nothing short of a genius, as a man i got used to stupidity.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him...

The only quality that distinguishes the greats from the masses, is the unwillingness to give up.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

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

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not

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

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

Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings.

The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib, laughs Orson (Welles), so it never occured to me that I wasn't until middle age

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.

You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...

To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

The inventors of tools enhance civilization, but the author of ideas enables them to invent.