Walter Isaacson Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Thinking, Different

  "Steve Jobs Biography Examines How Rule-Breaker Tied 'Artistry to Engineering'". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 27, 2011.

• Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

  Walter Isaacson

  Smart, Genius

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

• We relate to Leonardo da Vinci because his genius was just being passionately curious about everything. He wanted to know everything he could know about our universe, including how we fit into it. We can't all have a superhuman intellect like Albert Einstein's, but we can be super-curious. And we can also quit smashing curiosity out of the hands our children.

  Walter Isaacson

  Children, Curiosity, Genius

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Leonardo da Vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. But he also respected other people. He didn't get into disputations. He was a genius but he had a certain humility. In his notebooks you see lists of people he wanted to grill about things like how the water diversions in Milan work; he was always interested in learning from other people.

  Walter Isaacson

  Notebook, Humility, Gay

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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