#genius

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising agencies #agencies #almost #destroy #disagreeable

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#brothers #clown #columbus #does #fact

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water. ↗

— Marilyn French

#drinks #everybody #geniuses #great #those

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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

— Gertrude Stein

#doing #genius #lot #much #nothing

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. ↗

— George Steiner

#genius #light #man #ordinary #ordinary man

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#been #discover #during #earlier #express

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#artistic #character #displayed #earth #genius

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#born #developed #field #geniuses #grasses

Passion is the genesis of genius. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#genius #passion