Genius Quotes - Page 36

• My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

  Diane Setterfield

  Dirty, Frail, Fingers

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own—a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.

  Francine Prose

  Art, Light, Differences

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• I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Lonely, School, Teeth

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• [He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges his inner self year after year. One must try to temper, to cut, to polish one's soul so as to become a human being. And thereby become a tiny particle of one's own people.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Cutting, Self, Hands

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• The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Taste, Obscure, Proof

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask the math genius if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he's sick of doing all the work during group projects. Sometimes, it's better to sort like with like.

  Jodi Picoult

  Struggle, Kids, Math

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.

  Allan Bloom

  Country, Jobs, Eye

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• Genius has its limitations. Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker

  Darynda Jones

  Insanity, Bumper Sticker, Limitation

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• ...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.

  James Hillman

  Dark, Mirrors, Shadow

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• All geniuses die young.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Men, Suffering

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63

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• Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there's nothing like a book.

  Laurie R. King

  Jobs, Book, Hymns

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• Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Heart, Simplicity, Humanity

  Issa Kobayashi, Nanao Sakaki, John Brandi, Jeff Bryan (1999). “Inch by inch: 45 haiku”, LA Alameda Pr

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• The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.103, Modern Library

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• To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Soul, Strokes

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 1, l. 1

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• A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.

  Steven Pressfield

  Children, Believe, Heart

  "Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way". Book by Steven Pressfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

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• All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspiration, Age, Brightness

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• Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

  Connie Brockway

  Thinking, People, Want

  Connie Brockway (2007). “The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, Loveswept

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• The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Men, Chaos

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.116, Hackett Publishing

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• Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Mean, Italian, Thinking

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• Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

  Jonathan Swift

  Prodigies, Last Words

  Jonathan Swift (1998). “The Sayings of Jonathan Swift”, p.44, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

  Philip Yancey

  World, Bears, Creation

  Philip Yancey (1995). “Finding God in Unexpected Places”, Ballantine Books

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• Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hard Work, Men, Hands

  "Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Mean, Science, Civilization

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

  Yanni

  Inspiration, Adages, Percent

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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