Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

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

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.

Become so good they can’t ignore you, and you are on the path to success. Become so good they can’t stand you, and you are on the path to greatness.

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

Being an investment banker is pretty much the perfect job for an all around triple-threat genius, and because I’m doing so well with it, I know I’m actually smarter than certifiable geniuses like Stephen Hawking and Einstein.

Being ahead of your time means leaving people behind.

Being a genius doesn't mean that you have an IQ it means you understand many things.

being genius does not necessarily means knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses

Being genius does not necessarily mean knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification; but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously, exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses

Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it.

Being smart means you learned it well; being stupid means you haven't learned it yet; but true genius means you know it when no one taught it to you.

Be like the sun; never let the opinions of those who hate you dull your shine.

Bend the rules only if you have learned them; break the rules only if you have mastered them.

Beware of the wronged Genius

Big dreamers achieve more than big doubters.

Brilliance is the masterpiece of your mind. Excellence is the masterpiece of your heart. Genius is the masterpiece of your soul.

Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces.

Block of wood, gives you a big bunch of paper, but it doesn't make it worthy as a piece of mind on single paper.

...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...

Breaking from the herd is better than getting lost in it.

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

But as with all geniuses, being ahead of her time meant leading a rather lonely and misunderstood existence

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

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]

Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of the stagnating atmosphere of materialism and dead orthodoxy into the region of the ideal. With the Master of Balliol, we believe that 'no English writer has done more to elevate and purify our ideas of life and to make us conscious that the things of the spirit are real, and that in the last resort there is no other reality.

But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied; sometimes it's just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen. (p313)

By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Children inherit their parents' madness.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

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

Color me....BRILLIANT.

Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration and effort implied in scientific discovery. Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Contemplation and writing demand solitude, which leads to a sorry feeling of isolation and detachment. Writers try to call their loneliness genius, and the world believes them most of the time.

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

Creativity is the fountain of genius.

Critics are loud, but success is louder.

Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.

Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli.

Dance to the beat of your own drum; whether the world likes your rhythmic movements or not.

Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at everything.

Did you just say you Think Mansfield Park is boring? Get out of my house.

Deep in his heart, he wondered if he was after all worse than this man or the next. He knew that he could sophisticate himself finally into saying that his own weakness was just the result of circumstances and environment; that often when he raged at himself as an egotist something would whisper ingratiatingly: "No. Genius!

Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.

Don't let anyone tell you, ever, that this is a zero-sum game. Your genius does not threaten me. It delights and inspires me.

Don't run with the crowd; fly with the stars.

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

Don’t try to silence other people’s genius because you’re too deaf to hear your own.

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave?