339 quotes found
“It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.”
“Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.”
“The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well?”
“As you see the patterns and meaning emerge in your own personal experience of the world dream, you begin to realize that everything is happening on your behalf, even the obstacles and the challenge...”
“Before you can tame your genius spirit, you have to find her.”
“Part of my wisdom consists of being a whiz at reminding the dumb, why they should be whizzes, and not just live life to whiz by others.”
“In order to start our mythic journey to end our suffering, we need to enter into a real and dynamic dialogue with our hearts. Start by writing a letter to your heart, telling it all that's going on...”
“We begin to become divine by learning to love like the divine loves. And how does the divine love? It loves everyone-including you-freely and without conditions.”
“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say”
“How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music”
“You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself”
“This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. The confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in ...”
“Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.”
“Every man is a genius, for God exists in all men.”
“There are two kinds of geniuses: the 'ordinary' and the 'magicians'. An ordinary genius is a fellow whom you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery a...”
“Genius and insanity are fraternal twins.”
“The only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.”
“A genius is a grownup that remained a kid.”
“I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy.”
“Almost all genius up to now was one-sidedthe result of a sickly constitution. One type had too much sense of the external, the other too much inner sense. Seldom could nature achieve a balance betw...”
