Quotes of: Great-genius Keyword

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

Charles Chaplin

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

Joyce Carol Oates

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.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It is in everyone's interest that every person's creative genius be encouraged and allowed to develop and express.

Great Insights on Human Creativity: Transforming the Way We Live, Work, Educate, Lead, and Relate

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

William Ellery Channing

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

B. R. Hayden

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Novalis

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Walter Lippmann

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

Richard Parks Bland

We can all agree that children are ugly.

I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling.

Joshua Foer

The Seeker, The Teacher and The Genius: Knowing is an art; communicating that knowledge is art twice over; but it is only the genius who can use that knowledge.

R. N. Prasher

The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.

Douglas Fairbanks

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Edgar Allan Poe

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

Damien Hirst

Hugh Alexander: You know to pull off this irascible genius routine, one has to actually be a genius.

The Imitation Game

As we dreamers make our souls into evolved fields, our genius is nutured and our presence and everything we create becomes charged and capable of positively altering the fields of others. In this process, we become more essentially human-which is to ...

Awaken Your Genius: A Seven-Step Path to Freeing Your Creativity and Manifesting Your Dreams

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the ...

Artistry Unleashed: A Guide to Pursuing Great Performance in Work and Life