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Genius

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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.--Doris Lessing
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.--Albert Einstein
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.--Carl Sagan
Childhood and genius have the same master-organ in common--inquisitiveness.--Edwin Bulwar-Lytton
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius.--Elbert Hubbard (The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard)
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few people of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.--Seneca (Letters to Lucilius)
The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journal, May 3, 1841)
Do you know what makes a man a genius? The ability to see the obvious.--Charles McCarry
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius--versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.--Mary Russell Mitford (in The Life of Mary Russell Mitford by L'Estrange)
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.--Isaac D'Israeli
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.--William James
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.—Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Execution is the chariot of genius.--William Blake
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.--Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Genius begins great works; labour alone finishes them.--Joseph Joubert
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.--Phillips Brooks
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.--Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton (Last Words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
Genius is an immense capacity for taking trouble.--Thomas Carlyle
The genius is making a way out of no way.--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.-—Charles Baudelaire (The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays)
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.--Thomas Alva Edison
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.--George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.--Denis Diderot
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.--Henry Ford
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.--Joseph Joubert (Pensées)
Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.--Ezra Pound
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.--Lady Marguerite Blessington
Genius lies not in thinking of ideas, but in the ability to execute the ideas.--Jane McElyea
Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.--William James
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.--John Dryden (Epistle to Congreve)
Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journals, 1834)
Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.--Walter Lippmann (A Preface to Politics)
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.--Benjamin Franklin
Here's to the crazy ones. The rebels. The troublemakers. The ones who see things differently. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.--Short version of the Apple Computer Ad
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.--Soren Kierkegaard
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.--Charles Peguy
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.--Gertrude Stein
The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.--David Brooks (New York Times, 4/30/2009 "Genius: The Modern View")
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Encyclopedia")
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.--James Joyce ("Scylla and Charybdis" Ulysses)
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.--V. S. Pritchett
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.--William Hazlitt (Characteristics in the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims)
The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.--Helen Reddy
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.--Elbert Hubbard
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.--John Foster
Our creative genius is the fountainhead of originality. It fires our compulsion to evolve. It inspires us to challenge norms. Creative genius is about flying to new heights on untested wings. It is about the danger of crashing.--Gordon MacKenzie
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.--Arthur Koestler
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.--Aldous Huxley
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.--Bern Williams
To see things in the seed, that is genius.--Lao-tzu
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.--Shakti Gawain
What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?--Bette Greene
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.--Oscar Levant (The Educator's Book of Quotes)
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Method of Nature)