Quotes About Genius

unaware teachers reinforce the idea that the heroic geniuses of the arts, sciences, sports and humanities are 'special' and that we need to accept that we are 'ordinary,' incapable of producing towering work that leaves people breathless by its excellence and generating a life that is matchless.

Jealousy is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius

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

The closer you get to your genius, the more you'll face the sabotage of your fears

Es bueno que las cosas sean difíciles. Alcanzar la verdadera grandeza y la materialización del genio que hay en vosotros son deportes duros.

Geniuses understand that it's smarter to create one masterwork than one thousand ordinary pieces.

Pain is the doorway into deep. Know what I mean? And tragedy is nature's great purifier. It burns away the fakeness, fear and arrogance that is of the ego. Returns us to our brilliance and genius, if you have the courage to go into that which wounds you. Suffering yields many rewards, including empathy, originality, relatability and authenticity.

Every visionary was laughed at before they were revered. Every genius was attacked before they were beloved. Every leader was misunderstood before they were celebrated.

El liderazgo consiste en marcar la diferencia justo desde donde estáis. El verdadero liderazgo consiste en aportar al mundo un trabajo valiente de genialidad ejemplar, con un alcance, una innovación y

Because, in our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks the warm, it prefers the quiet and it loves to be full. It displays, when it gets its own way in these matters, a degree of contentment we would all like to emulate.

Had I known at the time how well I wrought, said Yama, I might have numbered its days intentionally. Occasionally, do I regret my genius.

The mythology of Einstein shows him as a genius so lacking in magic that one speaks about his thought as of a functional labour analogous to the mechanical making of sausages, the grinding of corn or the crushing of ore: he used to produce thought, continuously, as a mill makes flour, and death was above all, for him, the cessation of a localized function: 'the most powerful brain of all has stopped thinking'.

Noah Webster contended that Hamilton's "ambition, pride, and overbearing temper" had destined him "to be the evil genius of this country.

Had Napoleon been thoroughly unselfish, Grant suggested, he would have been the greatest man in history, such was his military genius. When a young woman on board asked Grant to name the two figures he detested most in history, he shot back, "Napoleon and Robespierre."114

Archbold] was a man of imagination, of courage, of great persuasiveness, with a genius for reading men and dealing with them.

Habitually, and perhaps unconsciously, Hubbard would fill this gap—between reality and his interpretation of it—with mythology. This was the source of what some call his genius and others call his insanity. WHEN

Art presupposes nature, whereas nature doesn't presuppose art. Man's creative abilities, which are more admirable than any of his products, are not themselves produced my man: the genius of Shakespeare was not the work of Shakespeare. Nature supplies not only the materials but also the models for all arts;

Parnell's star had zenithed. The aloof man who spoke loudest by listening, the unemotional exterior which wept within at injustice, the shy man whose moral strength was powerfully evident, the Protestant who fought the Catholic cause, the Anglo-ascendancy landowner who led the landless, the Cambridge-educated genius who alone was able to rally and control an effective conglomeration of wild Irishmen. Charles Stewart Parnell, indeed, was the uncrowned king of Ireland.

Pythagoras was a charismatic figure and a genius, but he was also a good self-promoter. In Egypt, he not only learned Egyptian geometry but became the first Greek to learn Egyptian hieroglyphics, and eventually became an Egyptian priest, or the equivalent, initiated into their sacred rites. This gave him access to all their mysteries, even to the secret rooms in their temples.

By his own assessment, he was no genius. He had no great quickness of apprehension or wit or power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought. On the many occasions when I share those feelings, I find it encouraging to review those words because that Englishman did okay for himself—his name was Charles Darwin.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Whatever— the soup is getting cold. [Last sentence of a mathematical theorem in Leonardo da Vinci's notebook, 1518]

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Los hombres geniales empiezan grandes obras, los hombres trabajadores las terminan (Leonardo Da Vinci)