#genius

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#humor #humor

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#genius #humor #humor

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

— Jennifer Donnelly

#humor #taste #humor

Even geniuses could get things wrong-look at Einstein's unfortunate choice of a hairdresser. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#humor #wrongness #humor

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. ↗

— Robert Henri

#everyone #exists #faculties #few #free

Genius: Range of mind, power of imagination, and responsiveness of soul: this is genius. The man of genius has a soul with greater range, can therefore be struck by the feelings of all beings, is concerned with everything in nature, and never receives an idea that does not evoke a feeling. Everything stirs him and everything is retained within him. When the soul has been moved by an object itself, it is even more affected by the memory of the object. But in a man of genius imagination goes further: it recalls ideas with a more vivid feeling than it received them, because to these ideas are connected a thousand others more appropriate to arouse the feeling. ↗

— Jean-FranCois de Saint-Lambert

#imagination

Genius is eternal patience. ↗

— Michelangelo

#eternal #genius

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. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#inspiration #inspirational

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. ↗

— Max Gluckman

#beyond #discipline #fool #generation #genius

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do. ↗

— John Green

#intelligence #prodigies #intelligence