#genius

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. ↗

— William James

#genius #little #means #more #perceiving

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. ↗

— Washington Irving

#among #ascends #away #clouds #disappear

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip. ↗

— Dorothy Kilgallen

#door #genius #hand #help #left

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#beaten #because #comes #company #direction

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#book #dead #genius #man #masterpiece

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius. ↗

— Adam Savage

#genius #i #jamie #say #sure

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#genius #hit #hits #see #talent

Talent works, genius creates. ↗

— Robert Schumann

#genius #talent #works

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#coin #current #fresh #genius #grows

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. ↗

— Stendhal

#art #come #finds #genius #hell