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Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.
Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am
If you're speaking of a fantasy player, then it has to be Leo Messi as he's so unpredictable. He's an absolute genius.
Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.
There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity
Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.
You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.
Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.
The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.
Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.
I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.
There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.
It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years.
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.
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.
The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?