Genius Quotes - Page 10

One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A star earns the right to shine the day it is born.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If records refuse to be broken, shatter them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Do what no one else can do and you will become what no one else can become.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Shine your light so bright, and no one will need a telescope to see you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.

Matshona Dhliwayo

In the presence of the sun nobody sees the stars; excel, and you too will eclipse your competition.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore them all.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If the sky was the limit, stars would not light our way to the edge of the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have a spark of genius, kindle it until it becomes a flame.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Excellence annoys your haters, success infuriates them, and genius kills them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You don't have to boast for work that speaks for itself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person.

True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.

Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

There are 2 kinds of artists, essentially: those who want to make something popular, and those who want to make something dignified. But then there is still that rare hybrid case, and perhaps by that unintentional stroke of genius, in which one's work uncontrollably becomes both popular and dignified yet beyond its time.

Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control

Bangambiki Habyarimana

If it sounds good, it is good.

Louis Armstrong

I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve.Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.

If you're the only one that can see the genius in you, It's best you revisit the drawing board.

Astrid felt a towering wave of disgust. She was furious with Sam. Furious with Little Pete. Mad at the whole world around her. Sickened by everyone and everything.And mostly, she admitted, sick of herself.So desperately sick of being Astrid the Genius.“Some genius,” she muttered. The town council, headed by that blond girl, what was her name? Oh right: Astrid. Astrid the Genius. Head of the town council that had let half the town burn to the ground.Down in the basement of town hall Dahra Baidoo handed out scarce ibuprofen and expired Tylenol to kids with burns, like that would pretty much fix anything, as they waited for Lana to go one by one, healing with her touch.Astrid could hear the cries of pain. There were several floors between her and the makeshift hospital. Not enough floors.Edilio staggered in. He was barely recognizable. He was black with soot, dirty, dusty, with ragged scratches and scrapes and clothing hanging in shreds.“I think we got it,” he said, and lay straight down on the floor.Astrid knelt by his head. “You have it contained?”But Edilio was beyond answering. He was unconscious. Done in.Howard appeared next, in only slightly better shape. Some time during the night and morning he’d lost his smirk. He glanced at Edilio, nodded like it made perfect sense, and sank heavily into a chair.“I don’t know what you pay that boy, but it’s not enough,” Howard said, jerking his chin at Edilio.“He doesn’t do it for pay,” Astrid said.“Yeah, well, he’s the reason the whole town didn’t burn. Him and Dekka and Orc and Jack. And Ellen, it was her idea.

Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition.

Debasish Mridha

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Leonardo da Vinci

Places of genius challenge us. They are difficult. They do not earn their place in history with ethnic restaurants or street festivals, but by provoking us, making demands of us. Crazy, unrealistic, beautiful demands.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

If you're not a smart worker, it's about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you're not a hard worker, it's about how smart you work but times two from the brain.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.

Herein is a capital truth. It is not the natural capacity, the congenital gift, nor is it the effort, the will, the work, which in the intelligence as sway over the energy capable of making it fully efficacious. It is uniquely the desire, that is, the desire for beauty. This desire, given a certain degree of intensity and purity, is the same thing as genius. At all levels it is the same thing as attention. If this were understood, the whole conception of teaching would be quite other than it is. First, one would realize that the intelligence functions only in joy. Intelligence is perhaps even the only one of our faculties to which joy is indispensible. The absence of joy asphyxiates it.

We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.

Neal Stephenson

Ideas are the currency of innovation.

Higher intelligence is not necessarily something you’re born with or genetically predisposed toward. In fact, most instances of above-the-ordinary intelligences are usually acquired thru superior learning techniques ... Reading about the greatest minds in history, including recent history, more often than not reveals the individuals concerned (or people close to them) employed specific learning methods.

There’s no logical connection between being smart and having money.

Christopher Langan

Genius has now all-but disappeared from public view; partly because intelligence (which is strongly genetic) is in decline in the West, partly because social institutions no longer recognize or nurture genius, and partly because the modern West is actively hostile to genius.

You are Timeless Being and Awareness...You are not touched by any of this.

It's hard to pin down what my actual [IQ] score might be. It's silly to think that people even have one set IQ and that it's precisely measurable. My lowest scores probably reflect less than my maximum effort, and my highest scores probably grant me some extra points due to crazily high levels of diligence plus vast experience with these tests. It doesn't really matter unless we want to turn IQ testing into a reality show sport.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

George Bernard Shaw

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

Diane Setterfield

The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

Anthony Horowitz

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

Michael R. LeGault

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. Intelligence is not the foundation of arrogance. Insolence is not logic. Epithets are the arguments of malice.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

Erol Ozan

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field.

Andrei Tarkovsky

We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are compelled to test and surpass our own creative abilities, we must always strive for that originality in everything we do in order to move the world forward.

Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.

The 'magic' is the known and unknown quiet, spiritual, invisible thread which links and reveals harmonic elements to a universe of high vibrational sensory. And our beloved Bro. Maurice David knew it's undeniable creative power, from within.

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