#genius

Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right. ↗

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win. ↗

— George Clooney

#danger #everyone #genius #good #how

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#genius #man #put #school #sentence

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#effect #genius #into #mind #put

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#attention #convert #converts #desire #economic

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#believe #book #characteristic #energy #force

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#genius #inexplicable #magic #point #whole

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#engine #genius #insight #moral #motor

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. ↗