#genius

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#inspiration #ninety-nine #ninety-nine percent #percent #perspiration

The lucky person passes for a genius. ↗

— Euripides

#lucky #lucky person #passes #person

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something. ↗

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

#complicated #genius #make #might #missing

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#every #genius #hiroshima #leads #negative

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played. ↗

— Dave Lombardo

#ever #genius #hardest #i #mike

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

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#genius #knows #lucky

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#adler #anyone #anything #books #find

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#affirmative #affirmative action #american #american idea #antithetical

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#ends #flute #genius #good #had