Genius Quotes
The curiousity and to be interested in something makes you genius.(Robin Sharma said this once, in other words which will mean that to be genius or clever you must be curious to learn!)
If a great mansion is located in a wrong environment, it loses its real value! So it is, when a great and true genius fails to get the right stage, its real value is least seen!
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.
If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.
Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt."You're a genius, " I (Percy) told Annabeth.
Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.
There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.
I think MacGregor might be a genius. Anyone so oblivious to the horror of the human world must be.
You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might.
We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh...
Geniuses don't become geniuses until they find the right moron to compare themselves to.
Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects.-pg 129
There never was a man who could sit down and say: 'Now I am going to be the first man to write.
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.
Never make the mistake of believing forberance equates to acceptance, or that all positions are equally valid.
We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.
You can create something that is pure genius, but you have to get your timing right.
There are things in the universe that are simply and purely evil. A warrior does not seek to understand them, or compromise with them. He seeks only to obliterate them
(In response to a picture critic.) I'm actually a very joyful person. But being a genius with a photographic memory mixed with a strong case of OCD makes for a difficult picture sometimes.
A vigorous mind shut out from outer stimuli finds in this circumstance the time to develop leisurely, finds a freedom from distraction that leads to clear views of life and a proper expression.
It was at that moment, that even though she'd thought it before, Finley realized that Emily was a bloody genius.
A genius is no more—and no less—than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.
You can be as good as Rembrandt, but if no one discovers you, you will only be a genius in theory.
Give a genius enough time and opportunity, and his idiocy will come shining through.
Don't let anyone tell you, ever, that this is a zero-sum game. Your genius does not threaten me. It delights and inspires me.
Abraham Lincoln said, Patents Add Fuel to the Fire of Genius. What the great man did not say is that Too Much Fuel Can Burn the Genius
When a person becomes aware of their genius and they live it and they give generously from it, they change the world, they affect the world. And when they depart everyone knows something is missing.
If you want to win, drop the past trends. Genius creates new trends and the crowd follows the past.
so you want something complex and contradictory? I could stay here talking to you all day about how the world works when in reality I dont need too.
True genius is a complete stranger to most, a momentary acquaintance to others, a lasting friend to few.
Block of wood, gives you a big bunch of paper, but it doesn't make it worthy as a piece of mind on single paper.
Sometimes geniuses create nothing new, they organize already existing material into something completely useful in other ways
Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.
Part of my wisdom consists of being a whiz at reminding the dumb, why they should be whizzes, and not just live life to whiz by others.
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say