#genius

Genius is talent set on fire by courage. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#fire #genius #set #talent

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ↗

— Isaac Stern

#man #possesses #talent

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#genius #inexplicable #magic #point #whole

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#cleanliness #endeavour #extravagance #genius #hard

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. ↗

— William Godwin

#ally #genius #learning #much #proper

Common sense is the genius of humanity. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#common sense #genius #humanity #sense

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#children #early #geniuses #grew #indications

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.' ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autism #bunch #could #einstein #end

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. ↗

— George Grosz

#cult #genius #greater #individuality #itself

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#genius #hits #home #home runs #incredible