Genius Quotes - page 44

Valkyrie: "You are such a moron.” Skulduggery: "Don't be jealous of my genius. (Derek Landy)
If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul. View quote
Jay Parini
...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived. View quote
James Hillman
As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring. View quote
Jane Smiley
I am a genius, I am brilliant, I am outstanding and I can achieve whatever I choose to achieve with a ... given by my Creator." That is how I am helping people. View quote
John Assaraf
I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves. View quote
John Taylor Gatto
It's very unlikely you're a genius, but, if you're ready to work at it hard and you want to listen to music all the time and you want to learn about it and you want to be around the people who do it, you'll find your own way. View quote
Jon Gordon
Freud was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him. View quote
Jordan Peterson
In our time it has been seen, as I hope to show quite shortly, that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. Much more then it is probable that the first men, being less removed from their divine origin, were more perfect, possessing a brighter intelligence, and that with Nature as a guide, a pure intellect for master, and the lovely world as a model, they originated these noble arts, and by gradually improving them brought them at length, from small beginnings, to perfection. I do not deny that there must have been an originator, since I know quite well that there must have been a beginning at some time, due to some individual. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
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. View quote
Joshua Foer
There's a fine line between criminality and genius." -Dan Cahill. (Jude Watson)
I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it. View quote
Eric Weiner
When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys. View quote
Casey Affleck
Genius is the art of taking pains. View quote
Claude C. Hopkins
I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart? View quote
Madeline Miller
Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius. View quote
Michael J. Gelb
He was extraordinary, a genius; there's no doubt about it. But his teaching was not for everyone. Different students need different teachers and different teachers find different students. It's very strange and fascinating. View quote
B.K.S. Iyengar
I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius. View quote
Olga Kurylenko
It's not hope,” said Jocundra. "It's just confusion. I know he's dead.” "Sure it's hope,” said Mr. Brisbeau. "Me, I ain't no genius, but I can tell you ‘bout hope. When my boy he's missin' in action, I live wit hope for ten damn years. It's the cruelest thing in the world. If it get a hook in you, maybe it never let you go no matter how hopeless things really is.” He closed up the sack and laughed. "I remember what my grand-mère used to say 'round breakfas' time. My brother John he's always after her to fix pancakes. Firs' ting ever' mornin' he say, ‘Well, I hope we're goin' to have pancakes.' And my grand-mère she tell him jus' be glad his belly's full, him, and then she say, ‘You keep your hope for tomorrow, boy, 'cause we got grits for today.'” He stood and shouldered the sack. "Maybe that's all there is to some kinds of hopin'. It makes them grits go down easier. View quote
Lucius Shepard
Passing over the other arts in silence, I shall speak briefly of that which concerns the health of mankind; indeed, of all the arts the genius of man has discovered it is by far the most beneficial and of prime necessity, although difficult and laborious. View quote
Andreas Vesalius
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. (John W. Foster)
[H]e who has the most imagination should be regarded as having the most intelligence or genius, for all these words are synonymous... View quote
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time. View quote
Donatella Versace
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. View quote
Max Gluckman
Industrial progress would undoubtedly be slower under state-control, because the very object of such control is to divert a larger proportion of human genius and effort from these occupations in order to apply them in producing higher forms of wealth. View quote
J.A. Hobson