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The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.
I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well.
The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.
Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.
Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.
Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.
when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.
I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.
I am no genius; I just worked hard like my other teammates, and I believe all my teammates can win the title as they work hard, too.
A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.
Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.
I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.
Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?
Sad beyound words that Prince is gone. To me he was one of the greatest music heroes- a true genius.There will never be another Prince.
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.
Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.
Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses.
A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.
I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.
Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath.
I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.
This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.