Quotes About Genius

Es esa mierda del poeta herido, del dolor del alma, las gilipolleces de soy un genio demasiado torturado como para poder lavarme. Lávate los dientes, cabrón. No eres el puto Byron

Yang bikin kelpek-klepek adalah lagak pujangga-teraniaya itu, omong kosong luka-batin, gaya genius-yang-tersiksa itu. …

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. Intelligence is not the foundation of arrogance. Insolence is not logic. Epithets are the arguments of malice.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

And the most talented people in every occupation have huge advantages over their ordinary peers. Dean Keith Simonton, who studies greatness and genius, finds that whether it comes to songwriters, composers, scientists, programmers, or filmmakers, the top 10 percent generate as much or more output than the other 90 percent.

In fact, selling—rather than creating—inventions may have been Thomas Edison's greatest talent. Many of the famous inventions from his laboratory were imagined and developed by his staff, not Edison. His assistant, Francis Jehl, lamented that Edison was a more skilled pitchman than inventor, that his "genius" was most reminiscent of master huckster and showman P. T. Barnum.

Indeed, the enduring genius of the organizational form is that it allows individuals to retain bewilderingly diverse private motives and meanings for action as long as they adhere publicly to agreed-upon rules.

Why is almost the whole earth governed by monarchs?" Voltaire asked. "The honest answer is because men are rarely worthy of governing themselves.… Almost nothing great has ever been done in the world except by the genius and firmness of a single man combating the prejudices of the multitude.… I do not like government by the rabble.

Costello must have been the guiding genius behind the 1929 Atlantic City gathering when Al Capone came to confer with the bootleggers of the East Coast.

True genius, Churchill taught us, resides in the capacity to evaluate conflicting information.

A genius temperament should be handled with care.

No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.

To understand your country you must love it. To love it you must, in a sense, accept it. To accept it as it is, however, is to betray it. To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that in which it shows what it might become. America - this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of the no into the yes - needs citizens who love it enough to reimagine and remake it.

No. Genius has far less to do with your genetics and much more to do with your habits. Stepping into the person you've always imagined you could be is a trained result—available to anyone willing to open themselves up, do the work and run the practices that make magic real.

I've shared with you that long stretches spent in noiseless contemplation is one of the secrets of the advanced mind. Ultimately, you're the only person you'll be with your entire life. Why not strengthen your relationship with your greatest self, fully know your genius and start a lifetime love affair with your most noble nature?

or a Pelé or a Marcus Aurelius or a Copernicus over extended periods of training. The true geniuses all started out as ordinary people. But they practiced building up their strength so much and so often that showing up at world-class became automated. Here's another brain tattoo The Spellbinder taught me: Legendary performers practice being spectacular for so long that they no longer remember how to behave in non-spectacular ways.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.

your natural genius presents itself when you're most joyful. We get our ideas that change the world when we're rested, relaxed and filled with delight.

Si supieseis cuánto trabajo costó, no lo llamaríais ingenio MIGUEL ÁNGEL

no pospongáis todo aquello que debáis hacer para expresar vuestra genialidad y vuestro talento naturales. Vivid una vida que sintáis que es auténtica para vosotros y prestad atención a los pequeños milagros que os ofrece cada día.

A genius idea alone has zero value. What makes it priceless is the quality of follow-through and the speed of execution around the genius idea

Less is more, you know? You're attempting too much. Geniuses understand that it's smarter to create one masterwork than one thousand ordinary pieces.