Quotes About Genius

Einstein didn't invent the theory of relativity while he was multitasking at the Swiss patent office." quoting, David Meyer, a cognitive scientist at the University of Michigan

Neither E=mc [squared] nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Each man's soul is his genius.

En Argelia los genios no relucen, arden. Aunque se libren del auto de fe, acaban en la hoguera. Si por algún descuido se le coloca bajo los focos, es para dar más luz a los francotiradores.

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that genius lies in "being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that cost us much, ensnared us in our own designs, given us a few boasts to make about our courage and genius, but all the same it is an illusion.

Brain of Britain!" "If

ghost rules. "What about Wagner?

There are three requisites for growth without bound, and only three: the will to remake oneself, the genius to survive, and the strength to suffer.

Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.

But then there are the van Goghs and Hemingways and Mozarts, those who feel a hunger so deep, so far down, that greatness lies there too, nestled somewhere within it. Those who get their inner voice and direction from the cool mysterious insides of the moon, and not from the earth like the rest of us.

Talent guided by genius can achieve anything

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

Perfection is overrated, creativity is the genius and it's better to be considered crazy than to be boring.

Creativity is about connecting things. The key to genius is knowing how to make those connections.

You are born into genius but have you resigned yourself to mediocrity ?

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.