339 quotes found
“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.”
“One night I was layin' down,I heard Papa talkin' to Mama,I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.'Cause it's in him and it's got to come out.”
“This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had...”
“If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story.”
“I used to love the saying, 'If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door.' It sounds great, right?The only problem is that, as it turns out, its not even remotely true.W...”
“This reasoning is based on the wishful thinking that genius can only be earned through education and hard work. It denies the time-proven truth that genius can strike like a random bolt of lightnin...”
“Living myth is about the experience of the waters parting again in the here and now. As a critical moment opens before us the spirit of life and genius of the soul speaks to us and through us. What...”
“Madness is the acme of intelligence.”
“Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.”
“My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.”
“I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books”
“I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.”
“Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.”
“I had often said that I would write, the wives of geniuses I have sat with. I have sat with so many. I have sat with wives who were not wives, of geniuses who were real geniuses. I have sat with re...”
“We're all a genius, but If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
“If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.”
“It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.”
“The mainspring of genius is curiosity.”
“We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness.”
“I refuse to settle for what you call reality.”
