#genius

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#all things #art #attention #create #creative

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. ↗

— Anthony Hope

#being #best #genius #intelligible #unless

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#carry #child #enthusiasm #genius #into

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#genius #mediocrity #republic

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#doing #easily #find #genius #impossible

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

Genius is childhood recalled at will. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#genius #recalled #will

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

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#defect #either #genius #given #gods

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. ↗

— Clive Bell

#genius #inevitable #sign #uncreative #worship