#genius

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. ↗

— Maude Adams

#seeing #straight #talent #things

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#bosom #brother #caution #counselor #elder

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#either #genius #get #guy #idiot

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#danger #dull #genius #greatest #greatest danger

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines. ↗

— Beck

#fbi #genius #great #hammer #i

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line. ↗

— Hugh Bonneville

#fine line #genius #home #i #line

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#any #bad #fool #genius #good

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius. ↗

— Jon Brion

#genius #like #looks #music #outside

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#butcher #dream #equal #escape #geniuses

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#companion #even #genius #inseparable #moderation