Genius Quotes - page 66

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Lose this day loitering, twill be the same story Tomorrow, and the rest more dilatory Thus, indecision brings its own delays And days are lost lamenting over days, Are you in earnest Seize this very moment What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Courage has genius, power and magic in it Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin it and the work will be completed. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days.... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Genius develops in quiet places, Character out in the full current of human life. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He had a startling genius, but somehow it did n't emerge; Always on the evolution of things that would n't evolve; Always verging toward some climax, but he never reached the verge; Always nearing the solution of some theme he could not solve. View quote
Sam Walter Foss
How exactly did the president normalize neoconservatism? In 2016, liberals accused candidate Trump of isolationism. Neoconservatives-aka Conservatism Inc.-did the same. Having consistently complained of his isolationism, the Left and the phony Right cannot but sanction President Trump's interventionism. To some, the normalizing of neoconservatism by a president who ran against it is a stroke of genius; of a piece with Bill Clinton's triangulation tactics. To others, it's a cynical sleight of hand. View quote
Ilana Mercer
The Art of a well-developed genius is far different from the Artfulness of the Understanding, of the merely reasoning mind. View quote
Novalis
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness. View quote
Jerry Saltz
Remember, if you do the things you ought to do when you ought to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them. ... Whatever you do or dream you can do - begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. (Mary Kay Ash)
I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled. View quote
Jane Welsh Carlyle
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. View quote
Horace
But, Roman, thou, do thou control The nations far and wide; Be this thy genius, to impose The rule of peace on vanquished foes, Show pity to the humbled soul, And crush the sons of pride. View quote
John Conington
Del Piero is a true genius. View quote
Alessandro Del Piero
The genius is childlike. Like children he looks into the world as into a new creation and finds there a perennial source of wonder and delight. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day. View quote
Marc Andreessen
What the age needs is not a genius - it has had geniuses enough, but a martyr, who in order to teach men to obey would himself be obedient unto death. What the age needs is awakening. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Clarity of thought is a shining point in a vast expanse of unrelieved darkness. Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom. View quote
Stanisław Lem
I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius. (Anthony Hopkins)
Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. View quote
Walter Isaacson
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. View quote
Clive Bell
As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den, The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust, to take away The edge of that day's celebration, When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd Or Night kept chain'd below. View quote
William Shakespeare
As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them, which had not heretofore been developed. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne