Genius Quotes - Page 2

Don't make fun of me!" Ender said. "I'm afraid I'm going crazy.

I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.

Orson Scott Card

It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.

Orson Scott Card

The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well?

Ayn Rand

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.

Orson Scott Card

In my dreams," said Ender, "I'm never sure whether I'm really me.

Orson Scott Card

As you see the patterns and meaning emerge in your own personal experience of the world dream, you begin to realize that everything is happening on your behalf, even the obstacles and the challenges that you experiment with. The obstacles and challenges that you find are there to dare you to become vast and wise enough to surmount them. At this stage, it helps to ask yourself: What is the myth I'm living? And what must I do to live it well?

Carolyn Elliott

Before you can tame your genius spirit, you have to find her.

Carolyn Elliott

In order to start our mythic journey to end our suffering, we need to enter into a real and dynamic dialogue with our hearts. Start by writing a letter to your heart, telling it all that's going on with you now and asking it for guidance.

Carolyn Elliott

We begin to become divine by learning to love like the divine loves. And how does the divine love? It loves everyone-including you-freely and without conditions.

Carolyn Elliott

People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

Georgette Heyer

Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.

Arthur C. Clarke

Genius' was a word loosely used by expatriot Americans in Paris and Rome, between the Versailles Peace treaty and the Depression, to cover all varieties of artistic, literary and musical experimentalism. A useful and readable history of the literary Thirties is Geniuses Together by Kay Boyle-Joyce, Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Pound, Eliot and the rest. They all became famous figures but too many of them developed defects of character-ambition, meanness, boastfulness, cowardice or inhumanity-that defrauded their early genius. Experimentalism is a quality alien to genius. It implies doubt, hope, uncertainty, the need for group reassurance; whereas genius works alone, in confidence of a foreknown result. Experiments are useful as a demonstration of how not to write, paint or compose if one's interest lies in durable rather than fashionable results; but since far more self-styled artists are interested in frissons á la mode rather than in truth, it is foolish to protest. Experimentalism means variation on the theme of other people's uncertainties.

Robert Graves

Genius and insanity are fraternal twins.

Carl Henegan

The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

A genius is a grownup that remained a kid.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy.

David Foster Wallace

Don't wait till tomorrow to achieve your goals, live in the present and look forward to the future. Forget yesterday and start living today.

Jazmin Bois

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

Charles Bukowski

Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun has spots (stains). The ungrateful only talk about the spots (stains). The grateful talk about the light.

José Martí

Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually form itself around it.Every activity of man is amazingly complicated, not only that of the genius: but none is a ‘miracle.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.

Sara Sheridan

The appearance of Professor Benjamin Peirce, whose long gray hair, straggling grizzled beard and unusually bright eyes sparkling under a soft felt hat, as he walked briskly but rather ungracefully across the college yard, fitted very well with the opinion current among us that we were looking upon a real live genius, who had a touch of the prophet in his make-up.

William Elwood Byerly

We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach; if you’ve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that you’ve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you, to climb into.

Mark Z. Danielewski

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you.

Seth Godin

Because I've learned that you can't control what other people are going to think about you. The best you can do in life is not piss yourself off.

Megan McCafferty

A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck.So the question is: Have you ever done that?

Seth Godin

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

Oscar Wilde

Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

Arthur Mellen Wellington

Étant la plus saisissante manifestation de l'art des constructions métalliques par lesquelles nos ingénieurs se sont illustrés en Europe, elle est une des formes les plus frappantes de notre génie national moderne.Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.

Gustave Eiffel

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.

Mehmet Murat ildan

It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.

Mehmet Murat ildan

So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

Orson Scott Card

Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him

Orson Scott Card

As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Orson Scott Card

There is no such word as Genius, it is just the combination of hard work and determination.

Lyza Matociños

If you want to be a genius, it's easy: All you gotta say is, "Everything stinks." Then, you're never wrong. That's how much of a genius I am! That's how I got to where I am today!

Wilbur J. Cobb

But his own mind was helpless against every moment's headline. He did nothing but leap into the mass of changes and explore them and all the tiny facets so eventually he was completely governed by fears of certainty. He distrusted it in anyone but Nora for there it went to the spine, and yet he attacked it again and again in her, cruelly, hating it, the sure lanes of the probable. Breaking chairs and window glass doors in fury at her certain answers. [15-16]

Michael Ondaatje

The genius. This is a skill to interact with outside environment, or source.

VicDo

If you want to be a genius, it's easy: All you gotta say is, 'Everything stinks.' Then, you're never wrong.

Wilbur J. Cobb

When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived.

Bryant McGill

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.

Ernst F. Schumacher

We’ve all experienced pondering a problem all day long only to find we receive the solution when forgetting about the problem and thinking of something else. When we stop concentrating so hard, we allow our subconscious to flourish, and those who do this more than others are often called geniuses.

James Morcan

Developing a genius mindset essentially comes down to two things: operating at speed and using the subconscious mind more than the conscious. This intuitive or relaxed approach to study is the polar opposite of traditional and mainstream forms of education.

James Morcan

Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.

James Morcan

Wyatt avoided the petty gunfights and headed to a saloon and rigged up a bunch of Molotov cocktails. Her firebombs against members of Tom and Vik's posse had destroyed the scenario's promise of so many wonderful gun duels. She'd killed most of their group, too, and shown everyone that she wasn't getting promoted only because of her programming skills. Her dislike of fighting had paradoxically turned her into a lethal killing machine.

S.J. Kincaid

Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.

Arthur Cravan

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

Alert Einstein

I say, `Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose,and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha!

Gaston Leroux

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

Henry David Thoreau

When the wind blows, curtain steps aside; when the genius blows, the intelligent stands aside!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I wonder if every genius has a touch of madness, does everyone that's normal have a touch or retardation?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

Cheap, fast and reliable, the definition of vehicle gold.

Jazmin Bois

The Seeker, The Teacher and The Genius:Knowing is an art; communicating that knowledge is art twice over; but it is only the genius who can use that knowledge.

R.N. Prasher

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.

Ben Marcus

Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.

C.W. Ceram

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