Genius Quotes - Page 23

• Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

  Winston Churchill

  Keys, Preparation, Ifs

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• I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

  Liz Garbus

  Thinking, Cocktails, Fischer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Definitions, Complexes

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• One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ignorant, Routine, Mediocrity

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.

  Sam Shepard

  Hate, Temptation, Why Not

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• With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.

  George Carlin

  Evil, Training, Evil Genius

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• My genius from a boy
  Has fluttered like a bird within my heart;
  But could not thus confined her power employ,
  Impatient to depart.

  George Moses Horton

  Heart, Boys, Bird

  George Moses Horton (1997). “The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry”, p.121, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.

  Harlan Coben

  Reality, Thinking, Insanity

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• To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

  Joyce Cary

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Forget

  Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”

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• The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Dream, Creative, Impossible

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• Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Mystery, Abyss, Edges

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• When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Age, Immigration, Paper

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• We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to figure out that it's a high mountain.

  Charlie Munger

  Mountain, Figures, Everest

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• Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

  Christian Wiman

  Artistic, Century, Produce

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I believe there is some kind of magic that comes just from looking at somebody. In the beginning, I called it "Genius" in a very cynical way. Then I started to look at real geniuses in history and all of them have the same expression, of something very bitter. It's bitter because they have this kind of knowledge that they cannot share. They don't have the time or energy to deal with other people.

  Nir Hod

  Real, Believe, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  People, Stupidity, Sublime

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• From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Reading, Book, Thoughtful

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.

  William Wickenden

  Faith, Men, Essence

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• Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Accomplishment, Luck, Tag

  Robert A. Heinlein (2009). “The Puppet Masters”, p.264, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• ... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Men, Morality, Has Beens

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• Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Luck

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• Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Eagles, Crow

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• ... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.

  Maria W. Stewart

  Men, Race, Color

  Maria W. Stewart, Marilyn Richardson (1987). “Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches”, p.70, Indiana University Press

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• Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Reality, Creating, Views

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.82, Bantam

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• Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Justice, Romance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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