Genius
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights'. When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you're a conservative Republican, you've got to fight for your life. It's really an amazing thing.
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