Quotes About Genius

It is not just Gould's playing but the fact that he stopped playing, turned his back on the world, that fascinated Bernhard. It

Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.

Was U.S. entry into World War I such an act of genius that criticizing it is necessarily perverse?

To give too much room to the latent feeling which is rather common in these days among the unappreciated, that because some remarkably successful men are fools, all remarkably unsuccessful men are geniuses.' 'Pretty

Like exceptional emphasis in the tone of a genius, that which would have made mediocrity ridiculous was an addition to recognised power.

È proprio vero che il Poeta, o il Filosofo, o l'Artista il cui genio è la gloria della sua epoca, viene ad essere diminuito per il fatto che senza dubbio è storicamente probabile, per non dire certo, che egli è il diretto discendente di qualche selvaggio nudo e bestiale, la cui intelligenza appena bastava a farlo un po' più furbo della volpe, e per ciò stesso molto più pericoloso della tigre?

But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.

Now I should rather suppose there is no reason for it: it is the fashion to be unhappy. To have a reason for being so would be exceedingly commonplace: to be so without any is the province of genius.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.

Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.

Je crois que l'humanité commence là où les gens sans génie figurent qu'elle s'arrête.

En retrospectiva, todos somos unos genios, pero el riesgo siempre implica mirar hacia el futuro, no hacia el pasado.

Al casarse, se hacía por fin inteligible. Dejaba de ser un genio desgarbado para convertirse en una mujer como las demás, con un corazón que conquistar, un vientre que fecundar, un piso a decorar.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

That afternoon, I begin to learn the wisdom of keeping my feelings to myself, a lesson reinforced often during a childhood of female warfare and tricky, shifting alliances, so often that my genius for envasion at last approaches that of my mother. She may sleep with a mask, but by the time I am a teenager I have made one within myself, I have hidden my heart.

When an amateur attempts to conceal something, the more complex he makes his camouflage, the deeper the grave he digs for himself. But not so a genius. The genius does something far simpler, yet something no normal person would even dream of, the last thing a normal person would think of doing. And from this simplicity, immense complexity is created.

Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

By caring for the soul faithfully, every day, we step out of the way and let our full genius emerge.

Goddard was not personally religious; his most immediate and consistent motivation was a desire for recognition as the founding genius of rocket science.

The genius who doesn't imagine is merely a brilliant idiot.

The thread by which our fate hangs is wearing thin. Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment. This is simply another façon de parler for what John called the "wrath of God." 735

The sign is always less than the concept it represents, while a symbol always stands for something more than its obvious and immediate meaning. Symbols, moreover, are natural and spontaneous products. No genius has ever sat down with a pen or a brush in his hand and said: "Now I am going to invent a symbol.

We find this in everyday life, where dilemmas are sometimes solved by the most surprising new propositions; many artists, philosophers, and even scientists owe some of their best ideas to inspirations that appear suddenly from the unconscious. The ability to reach a rich vein of such material and to translate it effectively into philosophy, literature, music, or scientific discovery is one of the hallmarks of what is commonly called genius.